After nearly two hours of discussion and citizens’ comments, Red Bank city commissioners approved an amended separation agreement with former City Manager Tim Thornbury at their May 18 meeting.
Under the new agreement, Thornbury’s duties as city manager will cease and he will provide services as a commercial building inspector and other services as needed for the interim or new city manager. Those services would include assistance with the city’s 2021-2022 budget and will end March 31, 2022.
Thornbury will receive 10 months’ salary, as well as health insurance, vehicle allowance and accrued vacation and sick leave through Oct. 31, 2021. In the proposed termination agreement the commission voted upon April 26, Thornbury would have received those benefits through March 31, 2021.
Last month, Thornbury submitted a resignation letter along with a separation agreement in which he proposed continuing on an as-needed basis his duties as building inspector, public works director and city manager, as well as serving as a consultant to the interim city manager or new city manager, until next March.
Staff photo by Emily Crisman / Tim ThornburyFor those services he proposed 10 months’ salary as well as health insurance, vehicle allowance, and accrued vacation and sick leave.