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Regular City Council Meeting <br />February 10, 2003 <br />Page 10 <br /> <br />another question that has come up is Beverly Lewis, the former Librarian, and <br />you did not address her situation. Mr. Anderson advised that Ms. Lewis drew <br />vacation time, not comp time after she left. She had over 3,000 comp hours that <br />she was not paid for. He advised that the city used Ms. Lewis the same way they <br />did Mr. Smith. The city did not have a Librarian for about nine months and Ms. <br />Lewis was consulted by telephone, she prepared the following year' s budget and <br />there was a lot of correspondence by mail and e-mail. <br /> <br />Mr. Wilson said the point here is, are we entering into a contract that they will <br />simply go up here and say you are telling us tonight that there is no comp time <br />and only 30 days of vacation and no sick leave time, but when it actually <br />happens, it is a different situation. Mr. Wilson asked that this be delineated out. <br />He stated that, if Council is going to write this iron-clad contract in his favor, <br />then Council should at least put it in writing that the Manager will be paid for 30 <br />days vacation, no comp time, and no sick leave time. If that is what it is, spell <br />it out in the contract instead of tying it to something else that could be <br />misinterpreted later. Mr. Wilson said instead of rolling the contract forward two <br />years, roll it to the next year. Mr. Wilson stated that the contracts should be tied <br />down in both directions. <br /> <br />Jim Bell, 4255 FM 195, came forward stating that he agrees with Charles <br />Waldrum that this item needs to be tabled to a future specific date. It needs to <br />have public hearings. The contracts should be published, and the city should get <br />input for the citizens because this City Council is tying the hands of future City <br />Councils. He said if you are going to have a multi-year contract, go ahead and <br />put in a buy-out figure so that the contract can be terminated, so that the person <br />can be terminated immediately with a 10% payment, 20% payment or something <br />reasonable for the remaining time on the contract. Mr. Bell gave as his reason <br />for saying this as the circumstances that occurred when former City Manager <br />David Doty was terminated and was paid approximately $100,000.00 to get him <br />to exit. Mr. Bell said he did not think that as a city and a Council they should go <br />back and revisit those issues. Mr. Bell said Mike Malone agreed to go to work <br />for the City of Paris without a contract because he did not at any point want the <br />City Council not to feel that he was earning his job. He wanted to know what the <br /> <br /> <br />