Aldermen question retirement payout

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NASHUA ? Aldermen want answers as to why the board of education agreed to pay out some $117,000 to the former school superintendent in a retirement package.

According to Alderman-at-Large David Deane, the board of education changed the terms established in a contract with Giuliano in a nonpublic session, and the details of the agreement are sealed.

If people don?t like the actions taken by the school board, the place to show disapproval is at the ballot box, not by creating legal problems for the city, Bolton said.

?If you don?t like what the board of education did, run against them,? he said.

Giuliano?s retirement compensation also can be used in calculating his pension, according to the public information officer at the New Hampshire Retirement System. The pension is based, in part, on the average of an employee?s highest years of pay.
http://nsnlb.us.publicus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050714/NEWS01/107140042

[GT]

Translation:

We will do anything we darn well please. We will do it behind closed door and without public approval. And when voting time rolls around will pull a couple of positive PR stunts so the "good ole boys club" can vote us back in.

Not surprising this came from Nashua where they want to increase the Superintendent pay to $175,000 a 63,000 increase from the current position.

[Michael Fisher]

Simple solution.? 91-A.
http://doj.nh.gov/publications/right_to_know.html

Ask Ed Naile of CNHT how it works.? They must release the sealed files within 30 days, or else.

He has done this before to easily make "sealed" files public within a month.

[Russell Kanning]

Stop paying

[Michael Fisher]

Stop paying

This would be preferable.