Steamboat SpringsSteamboat Springs — The public soon will learn more about what an outside investigator found this summer, as she spent three months looking into a long list of serious accusations against Steamboat Springs' former top cops. — The public soon will learn more about what an outside investigator found this summer, as she spent three months looking into a long list of serious accusations against Steamboat Springs' former top cops.

Steamboat Springs — The public soon will learn more about what an outside investigator found this summer, as she spent three months looking into a long list of serious accusations against Steamboat Springs’ former top cops.

Today, Police Chief Cory Christensen will present the Steamboat Springs City Council with a new, more-detailed summary of the internal investigation that led to major turnover at the top of the city’s government and cost taxpayers nearly $300,000.

Council members will review the new summary and meet with Christensen in a closed-door session before deciding what to release to the public and when.

The new summary could be released as early as Tuesday night.

The council also will discuss a new grievance filed by one of the officers whose complaints against former police Chief Joel Rae and Deputy Chief Bob DelValle eventually led to changes at the department.

The vague summary of the investigation released in July following the resignations Rae and DelValle did not satisfy many members of the community, nor did it satisfy council.

Council initially decided against ordering a new summary, but changed course quickly following a public outcry and demands for more transparency from constituents.

Council members hope the new summary will answer a number of questions they still have, including whether the investigator found a paramilitary culture, whether a ticket citation quota existed and whether training occurred that stressed violent tactics as a preferred method.

The internal police investigation was launched in April after a former police detective and another former officer accused the city’s top cops of creating a hostile work environment.

Meanwhile, one of the officers whose accusations against police officials ultimately led to the investigation is fighting to gain access to the full findings of the probe.

Emails provided to Steamboat Today show former officer Kristin Bantle remains at odds with members of the city administration about both their response to her claims and their refusal to recognize her initial complaint as a formal grievance.

Anne Small, the city’s director of General Services, told Bantle that, because a letter Bantle sent to the council in March was not labeled a grievance and did not cite the provisions of the city’s personnel policy manual, it would not be recognized as one.

Bantle’s letter outlined what she felt were several problems at the police department, including excessive force, sexual discrimination and violations of civil rights.

Bantle wants the letter recognized as a grievance, because the city’s personnel policy manual requires employees who file a grievance receive a written, conclusionary response from city administration about their grievance.

Bantle indicated Monday she still does not know if the investigator was able to confirm her complaints during the investigation.

City officials contend launching the internal investigation and placing the city’s police chief and deputy chief on paid leave were adequate and appropriate responses to Bantle’s complaint.

Interim City Manager Gary Suiter told Bantle “I respectfully disagree that you submitted a grievance or that there has been any impropriety with the city’s actions.”

Unsatisfied with the city’s responses, Bantle recently filed a grievance directly to the City Council, claiming she has been treated “in a hostile and retaliatory manner by the agents acting on the behalf of the citizens of Steamboat Springs.”

She faults former City Manager Deb Hinsvark and former City Attorney Tony Lettunich for failing to act and respond to her initial complaints.

She told City Council she felt the city’s response to the complaints were part of an effort to “obfuscate the findings of the investigation.”

Many of the communications between Bantle and the city focus on Bantle’s efforts to get more information about the findings of the probe.

The city has classified the findings of investigator Katherine Nuanes’ investigation as criminal justice records, and an open records request from Steamboat Today for many of the reports was denied in the summer.

Bantle’s grievance to council will be discussed during an executive session today.

Council President Walter Magill said the conversation will focus on what level of involvement the council should have in the matter.

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