He was responsible for ensuring city contractors met equal opportunity requirements or recommendations. As the City Council considered different actions to address the city’s budget deficit, Councilmember Foster pushed to eliminate two of the mayor’s deputy chief operating officers. On Oct. 5, 2016, the city’s Citizens Equal Opportunity Commission discussed Foster’s firing from the city. She told Voice he was professional and pleasant to work with. He told Voice he was speaking on behalf of himself not the groups he has worked with in the past or present.