Fargo Library Board
Accepts Director’s Resignation
Members of the Fargo (N. Dak.) Public Library board voted unanimously September 12 to accept Director Dave Davis’s resignation, effectively ending six months of public controversy. Davis agreed to the city’s counteroffer of a severance package of one year’s salary of $62,244 and benefits, rather than the two years he had originally requested, the September 13 Fargo Forum reported.
Board President Virginia Dambach reiterated the city attorney’s opinion that there were no grounds to fire Davis, who was reprimanded in March over an offensive comment to a pregnant employee. The board chose to make no formal statement about the resignation, and Davis declined to comment afterwards.
Davis, who began as director in March 1999, spoke publicly for the first time about the controversy in the August 27 Forum, saying the position was his “dream job” and that the offensive remark had been a “poor attempt at humor.”
Joan England, who had been serving as a liaison between Davis and library staff since April 25, was appointed interim director.
Posted September 18, 2000.
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