Severance Package for Roseville Manager Comes With Resignation

Tuesday's resignation by Roseville City Manager Bill Malinen has come with a price tag: The City Council is granting him seven months severance pay as part of his separation agreement. 

Asked about Malinen's severance package, Roseville Mayor Dan Roe told Roseville Patch the departed city manager is receiving seven months pay, six months per his original employment contract plus one extra month for consultative services. 

Based on Malinen's 2013 annual salary of $141,024, he will receive about $82, 000 in severance pay.

Although he declined to divulge specifics, Roe said Malinen's departure wasn't sudden or unexpected.

"This has been in the works for sometime,' since the Council's December performance review of him, the mayor said. 

Roe said the Council in December set up a six-month check-in with Malinen. "Leading up to this (the Council's approval of a separation package), there had been a number of discussions and those discussions" lead to Monday night's Council agreement to approve a separation, Roe said.

Roe indicated that Malinen and the Council were not effectively working together well. Both sides realized  they were not "fitting together well," Roe said.

"In the best interests of each other it made sense to part ways," Roe said. "It is really an issue of effectiveness on how we work together as partners. We realized that this was not the case anymore."

Meanwhile, despite some dfficulties, Roe said the split amicable. He noted that Malinen is a good, talented manager who had a record of success in Roseville. Roe said he expects Malinen will do well in whatever he does next.

Given this week's turn of events, the Council is holding a special meeting at 5 p.m. today (Thursday, May 16) to consider appointing an interim city manager to replace Bill Malinen, who resigned effective today. The meeting will be held at Roseville City Hall, 2660 Civic Center Drive. The Council is also expected to begin the process for hiring a permanent successor to Malinen.

For other Patch coverage of Malinen's resignation, click on to this story.

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