HomeMy WebLinkAboutBrymer wants deal by noon; newspaper article (07-26-2005) Council
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deadline
Brymer wants deal
by noon today
By APRIL AVISON
Eagle Staff Writer ^•.
With a noon Tuesday deadline rap-
idly approaching, the attorney for
City Manager Tom Brymer said
Monday he would file suit against
the city of College Station and four
sitting council members if an agree-
ment is not reached on his demand
that he receive an apology and com-
pensation for the way he was fired
earlier this month.
Brymer's attorney, Wayne Rife of
College Station, has asked that the
council apologize, reimburse
Brymer for attorney's fees and pay
him "12 full months of all severance
benefits." The demands were pre-
sented after parts of an earlier offer
by the city to resolve the conflict
were rejected.
The council met Monday after-
noon in a 90-minute closed session,
ind Mayor Ron Silvia said afterward
hat the council would not take up
he issue again until Thursday.
Rife and College Station City
attorney Harvey Cargill have been
egotiating the terms of a settle-
ient.
"As it stands right now, we're
ther going to reach a settlement or
already has been extended Silvia and council members offered six months' pay,
twice so council members Susan Lancaster and Ben $6,000 in medical insurance,
could discuss the matter and White voted to keep Brymer. $9,499 from a retirement fund
to provide time for the attor- Nancy Berry, Ron Gay, John and an $8,400 car allowance,
neys to meet. Happ and Chris Scotti voted to according to College Station's
"I don't know if the deadline fire Brymer. After Brymer Public Information Office.
we're going to file a lawsuit," will be reached," Silvia said first threatened to file suit, the Brymer's salary is $145,814,
Rife said. "I agreed to give Monday evening. "I can't say council reinstated the city excluding benefits. He cur-
[Cargill] until noon [Tuesday] what the recommendation manager in a special meeting rently is on administrative
so they could meet in execu- was from [Cargill]. ... At this Wednesday and apologized to leave with pay.
tive session." point, I just can't say anything the community but not to Brymer's office has been
Rife said Monday night he because of the litigation." Brymer — an action that he vacant since July 14. He is
had not heard from Cargill or The council voted 4-3 in exec- called unacceptable. one of seven finalists for a
any council members about utive session at a July 14 meet- The council agreed last position as city manager of
what occurred in the closed ing to oust Brymer. Discussion week to allow him to resign Gainesville, Fla., and is
session. of Brymer's contract was not from his post and "expunge"- scheduled to interview there
Silvia said the council plans specifically posted on the coun- his personnel file to reflect at the end of the week.
to discuss the settlement in cil agenda, and Rife has that he resigned and was not
executive session at 5 p.m. charged that the vote violated terminated. ■April Avison's e-mail address is
Thursday. The deadline the Texas Open Meetings Act. Brymer originally was april.avison@theeagle.com.