The revolving door at Bradenton Beach City Hall has spit out another employee.
The Islander learned at press time that Ariel Sloan, city clerk II, hired in January by city clerk Terri Sanclemente, was dismissed by Sanclemente April 8 — short of her 90-day probation period.
Sloan is the most recent in a growing list of employees who have been fired or resigned in Bradenton Beach.
She follows Therese Rice, employed Dec. 7, 2015, who resigned Dec. 23. At that time, Mayor Bill Shearon counted six such employees, plus another clerk who was hired but quit before her first day.
Emily Long quit as deputy clerk in October 2015 and followed up with a complaint that Sanclemente was dishonest in the grievances she’d placed in her personnel file.
Long’s predecessor, Denise Bartels, was let go by Sanclemente in December 2014.
In June 2015, the city commission under former Mayor Jack Clarke hiked Sanclemente’s pay by $20,000 when it added finance and building department responsibilities.
Former clerk Audra Lanzaro quit June 21, 2015, and in August 2015, building department employee Jill Brissette and city treasurer Sheila Dalton quit after their positions came under Sanclemente’s supervision.
Sanclemente had been rehired by the city in July 2014 after a two-year hiatus. She had served as deputy clerk from 2006 to 2012.
Coming back as clerk pro tem, Sanclemente was trained by former clerk Tammy Johnson, who was asked to resign by city attorney Ricinda Perry in July 2014 after Perry questioned her handling of emails.
Johnson had replaced Jamie Anderson, fired a month earlier after only five months on the job by the city commission over questions posed by Perry and Clarke about her qualifications.
Gia Lancaster was hired as city clerk on Perry’s recommendation after Johnson left, but was fired in short order in October 2014 for misconduct and failing to show up at work.
At press time this week, Christine Watson, a public works employee, had stepped up the position of deputy clerk II at the front desk.
Watson was involved in a 2014 incident at city hall in which she secretly photographed payroll information involving two other city employees and shared the photos with her supervisor, Tom Woodard.
Woodard reprimanded Watson for taking the photos but later issued a statement during a May 2014 Bradenton Beach Police Department investigation, saying he had instructed Watson to take the photos of personnel records.
Then-Mayor Bill Shearon, under fire for allegedly exceeding his authority over city employees, did not attempt to reprimand Woodard.
Islander reporters Kathy Prucnell and Tal Reeve contributed to this story.