55-year-old Mark Holt, a city employee for almost 20 years, is accused of asking a local contractor to pay him a cash fee to process abatement approvals on a property that the contractor owns. Officials say there is no such fee to process the approvals.
Holt met with an undercover District Attorney's detective, who was posing as the contractor, and allegedly accepted an envelope containing close to five thousand dollars cash in it.
This investigation is ongoing.
