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Chairman Scurlock wished it made absolutely clear that Mr. Wright had coming to him with cause almost 6 months of severance pay, and the net is that it was not $43,000 that we voted on, but the additional three months or so, which is in the range of $14-15,000. The Chairman explained that the basis for his decision re the additional pay was that Mr. Wright had a contract for two years, and he did not want to get in a situation of possibly having to litigate and spend an attorney's time to resolve it in our favor; so, for the possibly $4,000 dollars difference, he figured that was the most amicable way to settle the matter. Chairman Scurlock continued that he already had the information re at least a 2 million deficit and now that he has additional information, because it has been released and staff is free to give it, if he had the decision to make over, he would have fired him and fought paying him anything. Commissioner Bird emphasized that was the point he just made. He believed that according to Mr. Wright's contract, if he was terminated with cause, we wouldn't have had to pay him anything. The Chairman stated that was not correct. For termination with cause, we were required to pay him six months' salary; the additional approximately 3 months was the payment not to litigate. Attorney Vitunac confirmed that with cause we had to pay the Administrator the amount set out in the chart according to how many years he worked, and he believed iI would be between four and five months plus vacation, etc. Commissioner Lyons further pointed out that when something like this hangs fire, it affects all the many people who work here and interrupts their productivity. He believed we saved more than $15,000 by bringing this thing to an end. Chairman Scurlock emphasized that this is over now; he just wished to make a statement and now hoped for everyone to get back to working together as before. 42 JUN 4 1986 BOOK 6 -,t)F 6a36