Although the city of Davenport will not comment about the reasons former Davenport Fire Chief Lynn Washburn was placed on administrative leave, the timing of her departure is now clearer.

Washburn was terminated last Thursday after failing to attend a predisciplinary meeting that same day, according to personnel file documents obtained through an open records request.

Despite informing City Administrator Corri Spiegel that she would not be available for the meeting, it was the last straw.

"During my tenure, due to actions on her part including but not limited to those of today and the past several days, she demonstrated that she is unsuitable or unfit for continued employment," Spiegel wrote.

Washburn said she could not comment on the decision other then to say that she had not seen the documents in her personnel file until they were published in the Quad-City Times.

"I hadn't seen it until somebody told me it was in the Quad-City Times," Washburn said. "To learn and hear about your career that way, it's a bit distressing."