Negaunee treasurer fired by Negaunee City Council, city manager
NEGAUNEE — The Negaunee City Council Wednesday in special session voted 5-2 in favor of following City Manager Nate Heffron’s recommendation to terminate City Treasurer Brian Downing. Heffron recommended Downing be fired based on a failure to show up to work, as well as for insubordination. According to the city charter, the city treasurer is hired and removed by the city manager, but only subject to council approval. Downing claims that both the leave and the insubordination were connected to his belief that Heffron had been committing fraud. “Last December, the United States ...
