Denis Cederburg, the longtime manager of Clark County nationalist works, submitted his resignation this period pursuing a 2nd interior probe that criticized his handling of an employee’s imaginable struggle of interest, caller records show.
In a two-sentence resignation missive to County Manager Kevin Schiller dated Sept. 14, Cederburg states that helium plans to discontinue connected Jan. 4 of adjacent year.
Cederburg’s resignation was voluntary, according to region spokesperson Jennifer Cooper. He has been the manager of nationalist works since 2005 and with the section since 1980.
His resignation comes connected the heels of an probe that determined helium “did not code the identified imaginable struggle of involvement successful a timely manner,” according to an probe study obtained by the Las Vegas Review-Journal arsenic portion of a nationalist records request.
The section manager was connected paid administrative permission from July 22 done Aug. 24 during the investigation, arsenic stipulated nether authorities law, Cooper said.
Cederburg did not respond to a petition for comment.
In a abstracted matter, the region fired nationalist works manager Jimmy Floyd last twelvemonth aft investigators determined that helium had shown preferential attraction to his wife’s firm, Rock Solid Project Solutions, the main subcontractor connected a $10 cardinal nationalist works contract overseen by Floyd.
Cederburg besides was investigated for his relation in handling the matter, according to records that were obtained this twelvemonth by the Review-Journal aft it sued the county.
Although investigators determined that Cederburg had shown a “lack of oversight” implicit Floyd, helium was not disciplined, the region said.
The substance investigated this summertime progressive the transportation betwixt a subcontractor connected a nationalist works task and a section worker progressive successful overseeing the project, according to a study connected the investigation, which was conducted by main quality resources expert Ed Capiral.
The names of the worker and the institution are redacted successful the report.
Cederburg ‘denied saying helium was OK with it’
The worker assisted the institution — owned by the employee’s begetter and operated by the employee’s member — successful obtaining its contractor licence but reported not receiving compensation from the company, according to the report. The institution performed enactment connected a information gross for what the study describes arsenic the county’s James Regional Sports Park project.
Cederburg had been alert since precocious 2025 of the narration betwixt the worker and the company, and of the imaginable for a struggle of interest, according to the report.
In January of this year, the worker submitted a announcement of further employment regarding the household company. Cederburg and the worker discussed the form, but Cederburg did not papers circumstantial absorption regarding however imaginable conflicts were to beryllium handled, the study states.
In May, determination were conversations with Cederburg astir however the institution was a subcontractor connected the region project. It’s unclear from the redacted papers who was progressive successful these conversations. However, the study includes comments that due to the fact that the worker did not person a fiscal involvement successful the company, Cederburg “said it would beryllium OK” and “said helium didn’t person immoderate issues with it.”
Cederburg said helium was not made alert of the enactment connected the region task until it was completed, according to the report. He besides “denied saying helium was OK with it.”
Following an morals grooming class, the worker oregon different idiosyncratic – it is unclear due to the fact that of the redactions – again raised concerns astir the imaginable struggle of involvement due to the fact that of the household ties. Cederburg past said helium would instrumentality the concerns to the territory attorney.
On June 10, the territory attorney’s bureau received the employee’s further employment signifier that had been filed successful January. On July 16, Clark County quality resources received the form, which Cederburg had “disapproved” a time earlier.
“Based connected these facts, the interest regarding Denis Cederburg’s handling of the imaginable struggle of involvement is substantiated,” the study states. “His effect did not guarantee timely review, documentation, and solution of the identified conflict-of-interest interest accordant with the Department Head responsibilities” nether a region directive regarding ethical standards.
The study states that immoderate corrective oregon disciplinary enactment would beryllium astatine the discretion of the region manager.
Replacement has not been chosen
In a missive to Cederburg connected Sept. 14, Schiller confirms the status date. The region manager’s missive besides describes a modulation program successful which Cederburg volition “step backmost from the nonstop absorption of day-to-day operations” to enactment and usher Deputy County Manager Lisa Kremer and managers assuming accrued responsibilities for operations.
The missive calls for Cederburg to “provide nonstop support” nether the absorption of Kremer “regarding changes successful the Department focused connected adhering to region policies,” specifically the county’s morals directive and reporting connected further employment.
After the investigations into a imaginable struggle of involvement involving Floyd, the region past twelvemonth said it was putting successful spot measures to forestall conflicts of involvement involving subcontractors.
Cederburg’s replacement has not been picked, Cooper said, “and the County is moving done the adjacent steps associated with the modulation and recruitment.”
In a Sept. 17 email to nationalist works employees, Kremer stated astir Cederburg, “The changes the section and the assemblage person gone done nether his enactment are important and it is hard to seizure however genuinely impactful his work has been. Denis has been a mentor to maine passim my career, arsenic good arsenic to countless others successful this community. It’s hard to sufficiently explicit the appreciation and respect we each person for idiosyncratic who’s contributed truthful much. … Thank you for each that you person done, your expertise and dedication is unmatched.”
Contact investigative newsman Mary Hynes astatine mhynes@reviewjournal.com oregon astatine 702-383-0336. Follow @MaryHynes1 connected X.
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