Mayor Jim Langfelder’s former director of planning and economic development is firing back about her own frustration working with the mayor.

Langfelder fired Val Yazell last week, saying he wants to move in a different direction and expression dissatisfaction with what he describes as the slow pace of decision-making. But Yazell says she’s the one who had difficulty getting answers, or any kind of communication at all, from the mayor.

And she says Langfelder often expressed impatience with her insistence on following strict rules governing the expenditures of federal pandemic relief funds. Yazell says she is talking to a lawyer about her options after her dismissal.