Former Fort Myers Beach Community Development Director Frankie Kropacek has been offered an $11,000 severance package and former Community Services Director Jeff Hauge has been offered a $10,000 severance package. Both men were fired by Town Manager Will McKannay on October 14th after being put on paid administrative leave in August.
The town offer is called a “Voluntary Resignation Agreement & General Release” and in return for the cash Kropacek and Hauge have to agree not to sue the town for being investigated and fired. They were given until November 4th to sign the deals. As of print time today Kropacek has signed the agreement, Hauge has not.
Because the offers to Kropacek and Hauge are less than $20,000 they do not have to go before the Town Council to be approved. And when we asked several council members about these offers they claimed they knew nothing about them. At the urging of the town’s H.R. Director, the Town Council recently approved a resolution allowing McKannay to approve settlements at $20,000 and below without Town Council approval. The H.R. Director wanted the settlement ceiling to be $35,000 without council approval. Mayor Dan Allers voted no on the resolution. The next day, Kropacek and Hauge were fired and offered the deals not to sue…