If you’re still trying to figure out how Randy Oliver could quit voluntarily and still get a sweet severance package, well so is John Sharp in today’s Word on the Street column. It appears there’s nothing in his contract that would require the city to give him severance unless he were either directly or indirectly terminated. However, it appears to be a common practice in the industry to give severance to city managers who quit voluntarily. Go figure. Oh well, it’s only tax money, right? Who cares?
Also in today’s WOTS column is a(nother) Schock endorsement from Karen McDonald.
Sharp stated in his article last week that he foi’d the contract and it has a second paragraph that deals with severance with resignation. Please get a copy as this is going to make the city look stupid if they don’t know what was signed. I think he put that in his contract cause the track record of the city and the two guys who turned down the city before he accepted made it necessary to be iron clad. We are not going to have an easy time getting a CM of quality if anyone looks at our records. Oliver is said to be a contract expert and he has help at home, I hear. Guessing one way or the other is not going to change anything but give us a black eye, again.
First: Every indication is that this is nothing unusual for city managers.
Second: Honestly, I didn’t read WotS today as being an endorsement of Schock. McDonald made valid points and observations.
BD – I did not read it as an endorsement of Schock either.
Second, again you are correct. Apparently it is a frequently used contract so why beat it to death. If they signed it they need not stop all the posturing and pay up. In my opinion they want another floor show like on the sidewalks. If council talk was money we would have a budget surplus.
I didn’t read it as an endorsement of Schock. I just saw it as further proof that Karen McDonald is an idiot. Really, could you make up a worse reporter if you tried?
I gave her crap when I thought it was deserved. But she is NOT a bad reporter at all. She’s done some good reporting of late.
I’m not saying she’s a bad person or even necessarily a bad reporter in general. But she has consistently been a Schock apologist, and her portion of today’s column was nothing but a pro-Schock piece.
The only thing missing was a picture of a blue and yellow Schock sign.
Maybe she is part of a “vast Schock wing conspiracy”
I have to agree with C.J. … the McDonald piece was Shockingly slanted.