MEMORANDUM

FROM: Brett 5. Dungan

TO: Bayou La Batre City Council
Council Member Kimberlyn Barbour
Council Member lda Mae Coleman
Councilman Member Austin Collier
Council Member and Council President Annette Johnson
Council Member George Ramirez

CONCERNING: Resignation as Mayor of the City of Bayou La Batre
DATE: Monday, July 27, 2015

It has been a great personal privilege to represent the citizens of Bayou La Batre as their
Mayor for the past 23 months. Bayou La Batre is a unique City that has been blessed with
a rich heritage and great resources. The future holds tremendous promise for our City
and its unique blend of citizens. Anyone would consider it a privilege to participate in the
positive changes that appear to be just over the horizon.

However, I have been forced to face the reality that, in the near future, personal issues
related to my family will demand much more of my time and energy than I anticipated.
You are aware that Linda and I made an unscheduled trip to Colorado on Saturday, July
18 to check on the health of my father who is ninety years old and suffers from cardio-
pulmonary issues. This, of course, is in addition to Linda?s own health issues. We are
currently in Colorado and a return date is impossible to anticipate.

lam not certain what the next few weeks and months will bring but it has become obvious
in the past few days that I will need to spend more time with my family than previously
anticipated. In retrospect, I probably should have been much more attentive to my
family?s needs during the past two years. There is no question but that I owe them the
same level of commitment and unselfish love that they have given me for so many years.

With full realization that, at this time, I cannot provide the citizens of Bayou La Batre with
the energy and leadership they deserve and simultaneously attend to my family's needs,
I am tendering my resignation as Mayor of Bayou La Batre effective at 5:00 PM. today,
Monday, July 27, 2015.

Linda and have been part of the Bayou La Batre community for over forty years. We
raised our children here and we grew to deeply appreciate the heritage, the culture and
the people of the bayou. We wish the community the very best going forward and we
ask for your continued thoughts and prayers as we face the future.

By copy of this correspondence, I am advising Attorney Michael Hickman to take
appropriate measures to drop the current lawsuit filed by me against four members of
the Council. It is my de 're that the City be able to move forward without this distraction.

W. MW 

et?th?alrl July 2015


Cc: Governor Bentley
Senator Bill Hightower
Representative David Sessions
Mobile County Commissioner Jerry Carl
Michael Hickman, Esq.
Jay Ross, Esq.
City of Bayou La Batre Administrative Staff