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Committee backs standard department-director employment template with six-month severance; moves to council
Summary
City Administrator Parks presented a proposal to standardize department-director employment agreements and to set a six-month severance for not-for-cause separations; the Budget & Finance Committee voted to forward the template to the March 18 City Council meeting with a recommendation to approve and authorize the mayor to execute agreements.
City Administrator Parks presented a proposal at the Feb. 28 Budget and Finance Committee meeting in Tumwater to standardize employment agreements for department directors and to give the mayor authority to sign future director contracts substantially in the approved form.
Parks told the committee there are 10 department director positions in the city; seven currently have employment agreements and three — including parks and recreation, community development and the new information-technology director — do not. The proposed template would make the term indefinite and at-will while standardizing separation provisions. "In the case of the existing, various employment agreements, that severance package...varies anywhere from 2 to 4 to 6 months. And the proposal in this template is…
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