Posted on 02/11/2005 3:23:09 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Yet another chapter unfolded Thursday in San Jose's months-long technology scandal involving Cisco Systems.
The woman at the center of the controversy -- the city's former chief information officer, Wandzia Grycz -- filed a wrongful termination claim against San Jose alleging City Manager Del Borgsdorf and his deputies made Grycz the scapegoat in the botched deal. The controversy has called into question the leadership of the city's highest-ranking officials and threatened the planned June opening of the new City Hall.
Grycz resigned her $174,000-a-year post under pressure in August after a city audit found she and others had flouted city laws by designing an $8 million Internet phone-and-network contract with Cisco so that only the company's equipment would be installed in the new building.
In her claim, Grycz charges that a deputy city attorney failed to adequately advise her on the project and that Borgsdorf and others then smeared her reputation when the city was forced to rebid the contract in order to divert attention from their own bad decision-making.
``Borgsdorf, his assistant and his deputies knew of the communications with Cisco, and even participated in some of them,'' the claim reads. ``He denied his knowledge of the communications, implying falsely and publicly that Grycz was acting as a rogue employee intent on hiding her tracks.''
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