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City
may be on the hook for $195,000 a year
State
Rejects Picking Up The Tab On Hanson Retirement
Former City Manager
Jerry Hanson’s controversial final contract — drafted by
Hanson himself — puts city taxpayers on the hook for
$195,000 a year in retirement benefits that the state says it
won’t cover and an additional $15,019 a month ($180,228 a
year) for pay as a consultant even though he’s not actually
performing work, according to the contract and public
documents obtained Friday by The Desert Sun.
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If
Hanson, 59, lives to the white male life expectancy of
75.4 years, that’s $3.19 million in retirement alone
that Desert Hot Springs will pay. |
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But there’s a
possibility that the contract, which includes a provision
stating that the city will pay any retirement benefits the
state denies, wasn’t passed properly and may be voided.
“Should the council adopt it, the cost of the June 7, 2005
Employment Agreement, is huge,” wrote interim City Manager
Corky Larson in a staff report to the council.
Larson, who assumed the interim city manager post after
Hanson’s July 31 retirement, has put the contract on the
council’s agenda for Wednesday night — and the council
will have a chance to vote on it again because of a
technicality in California’s open meetings law.
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- The Desert Sun (
September 3, 2005)
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Hanson's
New Contract
Even though he had already his plans to leave the city,
Mayor Matt Weyuker, Vice Mayor Mary Stephens and Councilman
Hank Hohenstein approved a new consulting agreement which
granted Hanson the following:
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