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Town manager's fate may be decided Saturday |
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:54 |
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 The Flower Mound Town Council will meet this Saturday afternoon to discuss and possibly act on terminating the employment contract of Town Manager Harlan Jefferson and naming an interim replacement.
The meeting will be held at town hall at 3 p.m. After the closed portion of the meeting, board members will hold an open meeting and take action on the two items if necessary.
"The Town Council is limited to what it can say regarding personnel issues; however, this matter will be addressed at Saturday's meeting," said Mayor Tom Hayden. "I believe that Flower Mound residents have stated emphatically that they want to have a cooperative and collaborative spirit in Flower Mound that encourages economic growth and quality development while retaining the special characteristics that make our Town unique. As a consequence, the Council has been fostering a new culture that supports these objectives and best positions Flower Mound for the future."
Town council met at a special closed meeting Monday night before their regular meeting to get an update from legal council regarding Jefferson, according to a source familiar with the matter. No action was taken at that meeting.
Jefferson was named town manager in April 2006 and served as Flower Mound's Deputy Town Manager and CFO prior to that. There are approximately three years left on Jefferson's current employment contract.
An email circulating around town from former Mayor Melissa Northern in support of Jefferson speculated that he was targeted for dismissal by town council.
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No more speculation. Watch and listen for yourself.
Since all we have to go off of is speculation.... What if Mr. Jefferson refused to accomplish a task from Council that was unethical? Then he should be praised for his integrity - not dumped off unceremoniously on a Saturday afternoon.
What kind of manager is going to take the leadership position in Flower Mound now? Win awards, get fired. How's that for job security?
Refusual to do what? All the city has done under his leadership the last 5-6 years is win awards (or were all of those new releases made up?) Maybe he didn't bring in enough awards? If this were the private sector and not politics, he would promoted, not fired.
Mr. Jefferson certainly knows that he serves at the pleasure of the Council, hence, they can terminate his contract if he doesn't perform his duties according to the Town Charter. That begs the question; if he's not doing his job, why are they paying him all that money instead of just firing him for refusal to perform?
That's quite a stretch to find a motive...couldn't be for performace..has to be racially motivated. What a joke.
If he indeed gets a $700k parachute , he'll at least be an affluent minority. Only in America!
I do not think that the city council will spend money on this, they are going to look to the businesses like the gas companies to pay this bill.
That said, the council must provide legitimate, fact based reasons for such a costly and disruptive contract termination. If they can not justify this action they should certainly not be re-elected upon their term expirations.
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