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Ir- juN 4 1986 BOOK 64 P,1 E 6,35 escalating the cost from 1.5 million up to 2 or 3 million. He did not feel that we can put the blame on him for that. That blame has to be spread somewhere else. Chairman Scurlock again pointed out that Administrator Wright was given the information by the architect saying the facility was not going to cost 1.5 million, and he never brought that information to the Commission. The Chairman believed the 1.5 million figure came from looking at the building we were thinking of buying over there, and then he never updated, and when we made a decision to change and go a different way, it was never brought in and the budget was never put together, even though he has -letters from staff requesting this. In any event, the Chairman stated that he felt we should drop this discussion. He realized that Commissioner Bird was not going to apologize, and we will get on with business and it will be a good County Commission. But he did not wash his conscience last meeting and he can guarantee that he did the right thing, and he is not going to take a lot of gaff or innuendo in the press that he had some sort of personal vendetta against Mr. Wright. The fact is that it was simple mismanagement and the information was withheld. Commissioner Bird stated that he would make the same point he made last week when he said he felt the action taken at the emergency -meeting last week was premature, and that he did not have the information to justify accepting the Administrator's resignation or terminating him. He emphasized that if the Board had all the documentation and all the facts presented here and if these proved that the Administrator was derelict in his duties to the Commission, then he could have been terminated with cause and we wouldn't have had to pay him $43,000 severance pay. However, we went ahead and a majority terminated the Administrator prior to receiving this information. Chairman Scurlock asked if he had the information to justify this now, and Commissioner Bird stated he did not, that he has heard just one side of the story. 41