Anchorage Assembly members are seeking ways to independently vet the mayor’s top executive appointees and pursue fixes to the issues that led to hiring of Joe Gerace as health department director.
The Anchorage Assembly is beginning an inquiry into the hiring of a Health Department director who fabricated credentials and work history on his resume, and it is looking into whether it can independently vet top executives appointed by the mayor.
“What are our options to do other vetting, whether we have to or whether the administration has to temporarily hire an outside firm to take over the screening, until we know what the problem is? Or do we just continue to use the same failed system until we figure out what’s wrong?” member Kevin Cross said at Tuesday’s meeting.
How, exactly, the Assembly will proceed is likely to depend what legal options the Assembly’s lawyers identify.work to determine the extent of possible impacts to the municipality, and will likely work with the municipal auditor to review Gerace’s actions and work as department head, Assembly leadership said.
”I want to know if HR did anything to investigate those claims, or if they, just on face value, dubbed those as a witch hunt or character assassination,” Rivera said. He was one of three members who voted against confirming Gerace. The Assembly acts as a check on that power, voting whether or not to confirm a mayor’s appointee to a position. Before voting, the Assembly reviews public comments and testimony on mayoral appointments, and often holds confirmation hearings to ask questions of the appointees.
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