St. Paul’s deputy mayor issued the city’s fire chief a written reprimand this week, saying he retaliated last year against an employee who previously filed a complaint against him.
The decision was reached in December, but Tim Butler appealed it, according to St. Paul Human Resources. On Tuesday, two days after another employee filed a separate complaint against Butler, Deputy Mayor Kristin Beckmann decided to impose discipline in the 2016 inquiry. Beckmann wrote to Butler in the December letter — made public Thursday, when the discipline was imposed — that she was putting Butler “on notice that if any other infraction of the workplace conduct policy takes place, there will be more severe discipline.”