Previous Rolling Meadows finance main will get $10,000 in added shell out, mainly for additional manager responsibilities

Former longtime Rolling Meadows Finance Director Melissa Gallagher will get nearly $10,000 in severance and retroactive pay back for serving as temporary metropolis supervisor in her final number of months just before she still left for a new work in Lake County.

The town council Tuesday evening approved payments of $3,166.78 in severance and $6,833.22 in retroactive shell out for Gallagher’s added management obligations, among Metropolis Manager Barry Krumstok’s firing July 13 and Gallagher’s resignation Oct. 22.

Aldermen accredited the more payment unanimously and devoid of dialogue as aspect of an work separation and launch settlement on the consent agenda.

Nevertheless the 4-web site doc contains a prolonged common release assertion — whereby Gallagher agrees not to deliver any “claims, steps, brings about of action, needs and liabilities” against the town — Rolling Meadows metropolis corridor sources reported the deal language is boilerplate, and Gallagher does not have any statements or pending litigation in opposition to the city.

A search of federal court docket information also did not change up any litigation involving Gallagher and the town.

Gallagher, now the deputy finance director for Lake County governing administration, failed to reply to a ask for for remark.

When Gallagher declared her resignation in a information launch Sept. 29, she said she looked forward to the following chapter in her vocation soon after 15 decades in Rolling Meadows, but would overlook doing the job for the town. She and her household nevertheless approach to reside in town.

In the similar announcement, Mayor Joe Gallo heaped praise on Gallagher, contacting her “an asset to the metropolis.”

She took the helm of day-to-working day functions at city corridor before long right after aldermen voted 5-2 to dismiss Krumstok. That vote came a working day following Krumstok filed fit versus the city and Gallo, who had placed the 22-calendar year city staff on administrative go away and questioned him to resign only times before.

Krumstok alleged employment retaliation and discrimination, arguing that his firing stemmed from a own vendetta courting again to 2019. Gallo denied the accusations.

The council settled the lawsuit for $250,000 past month, inking a 10-web site typical release and settlement settlement in which Krumstok agreed to dismiss the fit and release the city, its insurance coverage service provider and Gallo of any liability and statements.

Whilst the council’s shut-door look for for a new city manager proceeds, Police Main John Nowacki is serving as temporary town manager. The council is contracting with a momentary staffing company and Thomas Glaser, the former Higher education of DuPage and Prepare dinner County finance boss, to oversee the finance division.