Multnomah County Library administrator resigns, citing allegations of discrimination

A Multnomah County Library manager at Portland’s downtown branch has resigned, citing accusations of workplace discrimination and retaliation against him. The administrator’s allegations — detailed in an April 9 resignation letter released to The Oregonian/OregonLive in a public records request — are another hit to the library system, whose longtime leader, Vailey Oehlke, . Perry Gardner, whose title at Central Library was library administrator, alleged that the hostile behavior he experienced went back as far as 2020. He started with the county library in 2017, according to library spokesperson Shawn...