Severance Increase Won't Be Added to Ellisville City Manager Contract
Ellisville City Council vote resulted in a tie, nixing the proposed contract revisions.
A proposed contract alteration that would increase severance allowance for Ellisville City Manager Kevin Bookout ended in a tie vote from city council at the Dec. 5 council meeting. The revision would have added an additional one month's worth of salary pay for each year served if Bookout were to be removed without cause from the city manager position, packaged with the current six months salary and health premium already in his contract. At present, after six years of service, Bookout would earn an additional six months of pay, with the cap at 12 months. After the bill's first reading, the tie vote prevented the measure from moving forward. Council Member Matt Pirrello said Bookout's original contract from December 2006 had nine months of…
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Amy Samuel
12:03 pm on Monday, February 11, 2013
Pirello has his hands in all the wrong pots! He is corrupt and needs to get out of politics. Everything he has been involved with is questionable! Why do people keep electing this man, because he has nothing good to offer this community. He is a joke and so is Kevin Bookout his little Las Vegas party buddy. Both need to be replaced for the betterment of the city. Kevin Bookout the CITY MANAGER is… more ›