February 26, 2009
3:57:21 AM

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Miller Saves City Manager Job
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DELTONA -- City Manager Faith Miller will keep her job after allegations were brought up that she used a racial slur during a business meeting.

Deltona's City Commission voted 4 to 3 not to terminate Miller.

Members of Biddle and Associates said Miller used a Jewish anti-Semitic term with them during contract negotiations.

Miller will have to attend a sensitivity training class, but a representative from Biddle and Associates said they are still waiting for a proper apology.

"I have not heard a formal apology. As a matter of fact -- denial, denial, denial, denial. And, of course, I hear the mayor tonight saying he has a faint recollection of it when I had numerous meetings with him about it. That was disappointing, but other than that, a formal apology, I accept it tonight, but I do not accept the denial. It muddies the water a little bit," said Mary Biddle, of Biddle and Associates.

Biddle and Associates, who has not done any work for the city since Jan. 3, said they were illegally terminated. The city said it would not comment on that matter out of concerns for future litigation.

At the meeting, Miller said she did not use the words "Jew it up," but that she can understand how she could have been misunderstood. She said she had no objections to taking the sensitivity training