Almost three years after charges were laid against him, Glenn Everitt, Dawson City's disgraced ex-mayor, has pleaded guilty to one of the six charges he is facing.

Everitt appeared before a justice of the peace in the Whitehorse courthouse on Wednesday of last week.

He entered a guilty plea to one count of breaching the public trust, one of six charges against the 45-year-old man.

Everitt is accused of illegally spending more than $100,000 of the town's money during the time he was mayor, from 1996 to 2004.

The RCMP's commercial crimes unit began investigating Everitt in 2004, following a forensic audit of the town's books which showed Dawson was $400,000 in the hole.

The audit also prompted thenCommunity Services minister Glenn Hart to fire Dawson's entire council and appoint a trustee to run the town.

Former town manager Scott Coulson was also implicated in the investigation, but the charges were dropped in 2008 because the Crown said there was no reasonable prospect of conviction.

The charges were laid in 2007, but since then the case has languished, due in a large part to the fact Everitt has not retained a lawyer and attempted to represent himself, a situation the Crown objected to because of the complexity of the case.

Everitt has not yet answered the other five charges against him, but told the Star today he hopes they can be settled without a trial.

"The hope is that a lot of things will be resolved as we go through the documents ... and provide explanations,” Everitt said.

The former mayor has been given literally hundreds of pages' worth of disclosure documents to go through, many of them dating back to the late 1990s.

"Part of the problem is just remembering back that far,” Everitt said today, "and giving an explanation for each thing.”

Everitt was represented by legal aid lawyer Emily Hill at his most recent court appearance.

He said today Hill is "helping” him, but would not say if he will be represented by legal aid if his case goes to trial.

In late 2008, Everitt was refused a publicly funded lawyer for a preliminary hearing because the court found his household income was too high and that Everitt had not

made any significant efforts to put aside money for his legal fees.

However, Everitt's wife, Debbie, passed away in the interim. That left him to support his children on his own, a factor which would lower the bar for free legal services.

Everitt is scheduled to appear in Dawson City circuit court on June 17. He will be sentenced on the single count of breaching the public trust.

It was unclear at press time this afternoon whether the five remaining charges – one additional breach of public trust, two counts of theft over $5,000 and two counts of fraud – will be addressed at that time.