The $1.15 million separation package for Memorial CEO Larry McEvoy has ignited a political firestorm.
Under the city charter, Mayor Steve Bach doesn’t have much say over Memorial. That’s the City Council’s job.
But Bach isn’t staying on the sidelines.
He sent City Council President Scott Hente the following letter this morning:
Scott,
This s to respectfully ask that you contact James Moore immediately to request a hold on executing the McEvoy severance agreement. Also, this is to respectfully ask that you hold a special session of City Council early next week to vote on giving the MHS Board current direction on this matter.
The planned 18-months severance for Dr. McEvoy is not consistent with the 6 months specified in his employment agreement nor is it consistent with Council’s longstanding policy limiting severance for senior managers for the general municipal government to not more than 6 months.
In the event the MHS Board does not promptly comply with Council’s directive after your vote, then I respectfully suggest that Council terminate the entire Board, substitute Council as the Board and reduce the severance to no more than 6 months.
It is essential to the success of our City that Council and I do everything possible to rebuild citizens’ trust in our municipal government. Council’s swift, resolute action on this matter is important toward that end. While I understand that MHS reports through it’s Board to Council, not to the Mayor, my thanks to your colleagues and you for considering my counsel.
Steve Bach
Mayor
MR BACH IS THAT WHAT YOU HAD IN MIND WHNE YOU MADE A POSTION FOR COX??? WHICH I FEEL SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN AN OPTION.
SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE.
GIVE THE MAN THE MONEY AS I AM SURE HE DID NOT RESIGN ON HIS OWN.
FOR A CITY WHO HAS NO MONEY WE SURE DO HAVE ENOUGH TO CREATE A NUMBER OF 50,00 -100.000 JOBS AND A MILLION DOLLAR PAYOUTS .
CAN WE SAY PULBIC TRANSIT.
LILITHIA
Lilithia, just stop. Please, STOP. You have no clue, nor any grammarial alility. Anything you write is crap, so we think you are very stupid. STOP!!! I won’t take the time to point out your mistakes, as they are innumerable. Just stop. Please.
Also, you ignorant twit, can you not stick to the subject?? This has NOTHING to do with Cox, you fricking idiot!!
lilithia says: “GIVE THE MAN THE MONEY AS I AM SURE HE DID NOT RESIGN ON HIS OWN.”
That’s not at all how I read it. The Gazette published an account of this that clearly indicated McEvoy departure was in large part due to his own choosing; i.e. he quit. Yeah, be nice (and avoid the expense of a Court hearing) and pay the man his 6 month severance he’s owed in his employment contract & then send him on his way. But he should not be declared the latest Colorado Lottery winner – at taxpayer expense – so the Memorial Board can feel good.
I am 100% behind the mayor with his request to council. I pray that level heads will prevail, and council will seriously consider the mayor’s request.
Welllll, smear my ears with honey and strap me to an ant hill.
Bach actually trying to do the right thing?!!?
If Councilman Hente does not accept this advice, the $1.5 million deal will set back relations between City Hall and the public by several years. It will be at least as bad as the old Penny Culbreth-Graft days. The public will not trust city government with ANYTHING, up to and including the recommendation to merge Memorial with University Health. This will cost considerably more than the $1.5 million McEvoy plans to take from the hospital system.
Oh Dear BILLYBOY you have the boy right, you don’t like what I post don’t read it. Sound like you might be IN need some resuscitating yourself . My I suggest Memorial Hospital.
I don’t get paid to write you silly little boy.
OH YES I HAD TO LOOK UP WHAT IGNORANT TWIT WAS. THANK YOU FOR ENLIGHTING ME. SO TWIT I WILL BE, IGNORANT SO LESS lol
I find your anger delightful and amusing my dear boy. NOW GO PLAY WITH YOUR TOY’S
lILITHIA
Lilithia
OK: Bach you want to run the City like a business.. You do not want to follow this rule or that rule of Government. Unless it is self serving to you…….right. So lets limit the severance package because you want to show how much power you have. You already got him removed from his position leave the guy alone. And stop picking and choosing what governing rules and regulations you want to follow and when you want to follow them. Oh thats right, you have all the power and can do what you want and when you want. Pick a set of rules and stick by them and stop picking and choosing. Just in case you did not know this: The City is a Governmental Agency and will always be a Governmental Agency and should be run as such. Can inprovements be made, heck yes, but the City is for the citizens not for your agenda and those of your business partners pulling your puppet strings to fatten their pockets. We are not stupid, we know what goes on behind the closed doors.
Bill Guman HELLO!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not beleive everything you read……….You can’t be that ……
Always a spin to the real truth. And let me say this again, since so many of you just don’t get it………
MEMORIAL does not, never has and never will use TAX DOLLARS……… I do not know, how many more ways this can be said and people still don’t get it.
The only thing Memorial does do for tax payers is offer care and free care if needed.
Typical Gazette trying to spin things like this is Mayor Bachs great idea. Saw the same thing with Bach taking credit for Lamberts Pera legislation bill. Now Jeff Crank is pulling a rally, this citee blows. Wouldn’t be surprised if City attorney is pulling the strings on this deal to get Dr. McEvoy out of the way so UCH can bring in there boys. Money seems to be no object for mayor and city attorney. They prove the city s wallet is wide open.
Bach could really care less. Look at the wastefull appointments he has made to those who supported his campaign. This is nothing more than political showcasing for a mayor who is nothing more than a puppet on strings. Give it up Bach. Maybe if you practice what you preach you would be believable but as long as you have your fab 4 pulling your strings we do not believe your sincerity in anything.
Revolution?
Something tells me this is a false flag event. Bach knew McEvoy was leaving and knew how much money he was going to get before it became public. Bach wants to bring the oversight back to city council and needs a reason to get rid of the Memorial trustees. A little investigating shows the chair of the Trustees was a Bach for Mayor donor. Jim gives Steve the heads up, Steve lets the news get out, citizens are outraged, Steve comes to the rescue and suggests dissolving the board of trustees.
Bingo , thank you Lou and BDG thats what I am talking about,
Hey Billyboy is that on track for, you know you are not the brightest or sharpest cayron in the box so NEXTED
did playing with the boys calm you down LOL Bach is so transparent. Lilithia
Lou and bdg757. Great conspiracy theories. Are you fiction writers, or just paranoid?
If Bach ‘could care less’, he would. The phrase is ‘couldn’t care less’.
Lilithia, where may I buy a box of cayrons?
The real problem is that this confirms that the Board is a reckless spender – thus you cannot trust ANY of their budget decisions.
This distrust is supported by the overall escalation of the salaries of upper level management at Memorial – accompanied by the usual pap that “you have to overpay to retain good people”.
Billy Boy, what do you care what money is spent. It is not taxpayer money. It is money Memorial has earned providing services. I don’t understand the outrage. Your taxes aren’t going up so what is the big deal? Also, you don’t think Bach wasn’t keep in the loop? His faux outrage is because he does not have control of Memorial and he wants control!!
It’s not the Mayor’s fault that this contract was agreed upon. If the city re-nigs on the agreement, Larry will sue and he will win. Bottom line, it’s contract law and it’s the same path that the city would follow if someone failed to perform under one of their contracts. A better thing would be for the Mayor to actually take a leadership role, meet with McEvoy and possibly come to a lesser agreement. This would satisfy the public, create synergy within the hospital and display true leadership. It’s easy to have an outrage, it’s more difficult to deal with situations that actually require work and collaboration.
Give McEvoy what he is entitled to…6 months severance and be done with it. McEvoy claims the hospital doesn’t have enough funds to give their employees any raises this year so it would seem that he is getting the payout with his 6 month deal. I am gald to see him go…he destroyed Memorial!
Well done, Mayor Bach!
I PURPOSE TO GIVE EVEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL EMPLOYEE A BONUS WITH THAT EXTRA MILLION DOLLARS FLOATING AROUND.
ONLY AN IGORANT TWIT WOULD NOT KNOW HOW AND WHERE TO BUY CRAYONS. ITS VERY ELEMENTARY
LILITHIA.