Fired B7kN K0¢,“ol 0g,Z ff \ [op simply couldfot tolerate and we had to take this action.” He said he could not go into the specifics of what came to light Monday. Martinez is out of town on vacation and cannot be reached by phone, his attorney, Jim Retallick, said Friday afternoon. Retallick insisted, however, that Martinez denies all allegations of any sort of misconduct: “T think they were hasty,” Retallick said of the city. “I think iti: was a rash decision to terminate him. I don’t believe they had just cause to > terminate him.” He said Martinez was supposed to be interviewed Monday by an outside counsel who is investigating “an allegation of some discrimination issues that Dean had raised,” in October. He said that as part of cooperating with that investigation, Martinez “did get some documents } from the city to use to amend his initial complaint, because if it was to be formally investigated he wanted it to be fully addressed, and the city chose to take the action it did.” As a result, Retallick said, he considers Martinez’s firing “retaliation for his initial complaint.” Retallick declined to discuss the specifics of the discrimination complaint. He would not say whether it involved Martinez directly or if Martinez was helping with a complaint involving someone else. Retallick said he has to look more closely into the ~ law to see what he can disclose about the case. “I anticipate, within the next few weeks, making a decision what documents we will disclose, and we will do so at the appropriate time,” he said. Martinez was hired by the city in 2004. The city was still stinging from an October 2003 federal audit that found the city deficient in _hir Dn les.2) people with disabilities. Martinez, who is black and was born in Belize, said he hoped to change that. Before coming to Ogden, Martinez served on the Economic Development Committee for the state’s Office of Black Affairs. He was also on the Ogden Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. From 1992 to 2001 he worked for ATK-Thiokol Propulsion . Group as a design engineer. With EZ Pay ihe coctofyour Standard-Examiner subsenpiion ls charged 1c pour credit card or deol card. No more bis. No more icking ervelopes. No mare a pa as fe :to easy. —