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Price councilor urges repeal of policy that sets 24-month severance for exempt employees; calls for outside compensation study
Summary
A council member said a personnel committee set severance at 24 months for exempt employees and urged the council to revoke the policy and commission an outside compensation and efficiency study; other councilors and staff discussed committee membership, benefit comparisons and next steps.
A council member (identified in the transcript as Joe) raised detailed concerns about the city's personnel policy provision that sets severance pay for exempt employees at 24 months of salary. He said the change appeared to have been recommended by the personnel committee and warned the policy could create a multi‑hundred‑thousand‑dollar liability if several appointed department heads left at once.
Joe told the council he reviewed position descriptions and public salary listings and calculated a hypothetical minimum severance payment of about $330,160 for one community director position if the…
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