Mar 04 2008
Onslow County Manager Paid $150K to Resign
At a special meeting Monday, Clifton submitted a letter of resignation to the board.
“If three members of the Board of Commissioners express their collective desire for a change in County Managers, I may invoke the separation provisions of my agreement,†Clifton said in a letter of resignation he submitted to the board Monday night.
Clifton, who was not at the special meeting or the board’s subsequent regularly scheduled meeting, will receive six months of severance pay, totaling $148,521.83. His salary was $144,000.
“This amount is six months of salary and his benefits,†said Ron vonLembke, county attorney.
This is the second such occurrence in North Carolina in a month. This time a County Manager is pressured to resign earlier than his contract is up and Archie Bunker here is paid almost $150,000 of taxpayer dollars to do so. Once again, no reason is given as to why the County Commission feels it necessary to release him early. This is another outrageous waste of tax dollars at the expense of Onslow County residents. Seriously, I need a deal like this.
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