Former Metro Diversion Authority Exec. Director Joel Paulsen
FARGO (KFGO KVRR) – The former executive director of the Metro Flood Diversion Authority suggests that authority chair Shelly Carlson and Authority Chief Counsel John Shockley violated the joint powers agreement, governance policies, and North Dakota law when they attempted to place him on administrative leave prior to his resignation.
In text messages between Joel Paulsen and board member John Strand, Paulsen said his attorney had informed him that Carlson did not have the power to give him an administrative leave ultimatum without the approval of the board.
Paulsen described his resignation as “forced,” and “not in good faith.”
“The resignation is null, she never had the power,” Paulsen wrote.
Paulsen, in the messages obtained by KFGO and KVRR News, also confirmed that eight of the 14 the board members had not been informed about any potential action being taken against him by Carlson.
Paulsen also claimed that prior to his resignation, he had been working with Shockley to help the the authority avoid litigation with Red River Valley Alliance, a consortium of developers working on the $3.2 billion project.
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