A city commissioner of West Park, a small municipality in southeast Broward County, says the mayor, city clerk and city manager are running the city “as a dictatorship.” Now, she wants a judge to step in.
In a lawsuit filed last week in Broward, Commissioner Katrina Touchstone is suing the City of West Park, Mayor Felicia Brunson, City Manager W. Ajibola Balogun and city clerk Alexandra Grant, alleging that the mayor improperly ends meetings early to prevent votes she doesn’t like — including a resolution to audit the city manager and investigate alleged corruption — and that city officials allow it to happen.
“We have been impeded in the capabilities of doing our job,” Touchstone told reporters at a press conference on Friday. “We have been told that we cannot entertain new agenda items, we cannot add agenda items to the agenda. Each and every time an item comes up that the mayor is not in agreement with, she arbitrarily adjourns the meetings, which is against our charter.”…