Topeka ? A Topeka city councilman wants the city manager fired in part for allegedly not disciplining an employee accused of hosting a pornographic chat line on city equipment.

Councilman John Alcala said in a statement Monday that he planned to ask the council to fire Norton Bonaparte at its regular meeting Tuesday evening, according to The Topeka Capital-Journal.

Alcala said a city employee, who was not identified, accessed and hosted the pornographic chat line over several months while on duty and on city equipment. Alcala said Bonaparte allowed the employee to retire with benefits and without disciplining him.

“I believe the case to terminate is a strong one and I intend to make that case tomorrow evening,” Alcala’s statement said.

Bonaparte did not immediately return a call Tuesday seeking comment.

Topeka city spokesman David Bevens said in an email that Bonaparte’s “contract stipulates that he serves at the pleasure of the governing body and that he can be terminated at any time should the majority of the City Council vote to do so at a public meeting.”

Alcala, who has been publicly seeking since May 2009 to have Bonaparte fired, issued the statement after the council met Monday in executive session. Councilman Bob Archer also released a statement supporting Bonaparte’s firing.

“I submit that a situation of a city employee regularly accessing (and hosting) a pornographic chat line, using city equipment, while on duty and being compensated while doing so for a period stretching over several months is absolutely a situation begging for the public’s right to know,” Alcala’s statement said.

“I submit that a city manager who allows a city employee who has committed this outrageous conduct to go undisciplined and allowed to retire, with benefits, is not a city manager who should serve a single day longer as the city manager of Topeka.”

Bonaparte, 57, works under a contract with the city that includes a severance package through which he would receive $103,125 if the council voted to fire him without cause. He would receive no severance pay if he were fired “with cause,” which would include such reasons as being convicted of a crime or failure to comply with terms of his contract.