The contract below states that David Lang will get 6 months pay.
David Lang was hired on April 4, 2007 at a pay scale of $43,273.23
RESOLUTION 07-032
RESOLUTION OFFERING EMPLOYMENT PACKAGE TO CLERK-ADMINISTRATOR APPLICANT
BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED that the Council of the City of Ortonville, Minnesota, offer David Lang the following employment package:
Salary-Grade 10 Step 4 - $43,273.23
2 weeks of Vacation
1 day per month Sick Leave
Group Dental Insurance
Group Double Indemnity Term Life Insurance Policy
$468.00 payment toward Health Insurance
Upon roll call vote the following voted aye: Anderson, Dorry, Meyer, Cunningham , Johnson and the following voted nay: Oakes, Arndt.
Resolution 07-032 passed this 4th day of April 2007.
Resolution 07-033 was voted on April 10, 2007Seven months later he was given a $10,000.00 pay raise. The new contract raised his pay to $54,631.45 and stated that he would get six months pay if he was ever terminated. In 2008 he was paid almost $61,000.00 plus cafeteria expense which would add another $6,000.00 making a total of over $67,000.00
If that is the total they half then that would mean that David Lang will get somewhere in the neighborhood of $33,500.00 according to the contract signed by Blair Johnson and Dan Oakes.
Let's see if this adds up.
Start job in April of 07 at............................... $43,000.00
Seven months later a new contract of............. $54,000.00
In 2008 he is paid ........................................ $67,000.00
No Clue what he was paid in 2009................... $??,???.??
Are these figures correct? In a period of 19 months (about a year and a half) he was given an increase of $24,000.00? I was never very good with figures. What percentage pay raise is that anyway?
Now the people have to pay what.....$30,000.00 to have him leave? Why not take it out of the pockets of the men who made the contract. If they think he was worth it maybe they should pay for it?
That is a lot of money for the people to be paying for a clerk who was not very good in his job. Should the people thank Blair Johnson and Dan Oakes for binding the taxpayers to such an agreement? Is a debt of gratitude due to City Attorney Craig Ash for the contract?