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❑ mh95 CITY MANAGER 01/29/1995
THE MIAMI HERALD
Copyright (c) 1995, The Miami Herald
DATE: Sunday, January 29, 1995 EDITION: FINAL
SECTION: NEIGHBORS MB PAGE: 3 LENGTH: 39 lines
SOURCE/CREDIT LINE: FRAN BRENNAN Herald Staff Writer
CITY MANAGER
SEARCH LIKELY
TO BE NATIONAL
The search for a Miami Beach city manager will likely go national, and the
search for a police chief has ground to a halt.
After the first meeting of Mayor Seymour Gelber's committee handling the
transition from City Manager Roger Carlton to his successor, the panel is
recommending a broad search -- and six months' severance pay for Carlton.
The discussion of severance pay for Carlton is the first public
acknowledgement that the city manager might have been pressured to resign.
"If we remove him, he's entitled to a year's salary, " Gelber said, citing
Carlton's contract. "If you remove him for cause, then you end up in
litigation. "
But the commission didn't remove Carlton, who earns $131,250 a year and
who said he decided to leave because his goals in the city had been
accomplished. And his contract does not provide severance pay if he leaves of
his own accord.
"These are the things he and I had discussed as to the best way to
amicably sever the relationship," Gelber said to explain the severance pay
proposal.
"So, doing it as gentlemen and ladies is the proper way and also is the
less expensive. It would cost the city a lot more in a lawsuit or if we just
dismissed him and paid a full year's salary."
The transition committee is also recommending that Carlton remain in his
position as manager for three months, then be retained as a consultant for
three months with an option to leave with 30-days notice. Carlton had offered
six months' notice when he resigned.
Another city search -- this one for a police chief -- has been called
off. Some members of the civilian search committee Carlton had assembled to
help him select the city's fourth police chief in three years had suggested it
might be better to let a new manager hire a chief.
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