Mayor D.C. Reeves talked about changes in this leadership team – a nothing burger.
“It seemed what took place last week was a little bit of a misunderstanding of the term ‘administrative leave.’ We had some employees that were asked to resign in the spirit of moving the city in a different direction.
“The standard procedure is that they have a certain amount of time to make a decision and mull over that. There’s documents that need to be looked at, things like that. So at a specific point in time, they’re on administrative leave, but that was misconstrued as somehow something nefarious nature.”
Former Mayor Grover Robinson discusses his takeaways from creating a homeless initiative during a pandemic.
Charles Thornton is bringing back the band – The Soul Royals.
And the full show:
PNJ is reporting that the city’s Human Resources Policy Manual contains a provision for a forced resignation. I can’t find it. The manual only defines one type of resignation – voluntary. If a member of the Senior Executive Services Group voluntarily resigns, they are not entitled to severance pay. If terminated, Powell is authorized 8 weeks of severance pay and Stills 12 weeks. Channel 3 is also reporting that Reeves is getting rid of Rebecca Ferguson who I guess will voluntarily resign too under pressure so long as she gets some severance pay. In her case, it is not much, only 6 weeks. Should be plenty of public records for the media to find to flesh out this story. A good place to start is with the Personnel Action Forms (PF-501) because everything done to stick it to an employee has to be done on the right form. If, as example, Reeves let Powell resign (so he doesn’t get what Mark O’Brien at the PNJ used to call “a black mark on his permanent record”) then it should say so on a PF-501. Similarly, Powell should not be paid any severance pay let alone 39 weeks previously mentioned here on Rick’s Blog.