Ex-City Manager’s $92K Paycheck Still a Mystery
Great investigative reporting by the Bristol Herald Courier for their attempt to uncover the mystery of $92k paid to former Bristol City Manager Paul Spangler.
Somehow, I just don’t see the Kingsport Times-News doing an investigation of dealing in the City of Kingsport government.
BRISTOL, Va. – The city paid former City Manager Paul Spangler nearly $92,000 for consulting services, but neither the city nor Spangler produced any paperwork to show what he did to earn that money over a nine-month period.
Spangler left office in January 2007 and took accumulated sick leave and vacation time before formally retiring in June of that year. Between July 2007 and March 2008, the city paid Spangler $91,800 for unspecified consulting duties, under the terms of a separation agreement unanimously approved by the City Council in November 2006.
Yet in responding to the Bristol Herald Courier’s request under the state Freedom of Information Act for any and all documents relating to Spangler’s consulting work, the city supplied no invoices, letters, e-mails or other paperwork to substantiate that the former manager did any work.
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