Medical Lake council amends administrator's contract

MEDICAL LAKE – During Tuesday’s meeting, Dec. 21, the City Council amended the city administrator’s contract to use a new formula for severance pay.

The existing contract stated the administrator would receive six months of severance pay upon termination. The added amendment states the severance pay will accrue at one month for every two years of service.

Mayor Shirley Maike said the amendment needed to be made because the contract hadn’t been reviewed for quite some time and had existed since the previous mayor was in office.

After that topic passed, Administrator Doug Ross asked for action t...