JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Housing Authority will maintain a particular assembly on Tuesday to debate the following steps in its CEO search after the JHA’s best choice, George Man, unexpectedly withdrew his candidacy for the place on Friday.
The JHA board mentioned it’s shifting ahead and has reached out to its second candidate-of-choice, Cheron Corbett Waller.
In accordance with the resume and canopy letter she submitted when making use of for the job, she’s with the DuPage and Kendall County Housing Authorities.
Contract negotiations had been underway for the previous couple of weeks for Man who’s the present head of the Fort Wayne, Indiana, Housing Authority. The negotiations with Man got here to a halt after he countered with calls for a number of board members mentioned had been “surprising.”
One JHA board member known as Man’s contract calls for “fairly out of line” and mentioned he didn’t present good religion.
Man had been supplied a base wage of $310,000, however he additionally wished to offer consulting providers on evenings, weekends or trip time, wouldn’t decide to relocating to Jacksonville inside six months and requested for a bank card for $25,000 for use solely for his relocation bills.
He additionally demanded a $300,000 buyout if he had been to be fired within the first yr of his settlement and a $200,000 buyout if he was fired at a later time.
What stood out probably the most to some was that “disgraceful conduct” and “insubordination” wouldn’t be grounds for getting fired, in response to his calls for.
Board members agreed that JHA couldn’t meet Man’s calls for and wanted to guard the company.
The board mentioned it would now look to increase the contract of Interim President/CEO Roslyn Mixon-Phillips who took over the company after a collection of resignations from the highest spot.
Vanessa Dunn was named performing CEO in February of final yr after former JHA CEO Dwayne Alexander resigned in January claiming he was being “pushed out.” However Dunn resigned in August earlier than her contract ran out.
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