By Juan Montoya
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We always thought that the $220,000 salary and $6,646 annual car allowance the City of Brownsville paid Charlie Cabler for acting like a city manager was too much for him delivering so little in return.
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And we thought that the 2007 contract inked by Cabler and then-mayor Eddie Treviño was overly generous in that it granted Good 'Ole Charlie 260 days of accrued leave pay whether he left voluntarily or involuntarily.
Well, as you can see in the pay stub on the right, Charlie leaves the manager's office October 12 with a golden parachute of $219,973 to speed him on his way.
And to think that we can look back on his 39 years in public service on a legacy of leaving the city in a mess. The city is being run by Assistant City Manager Pete Gonzalez (who signed off on the check) and Deputy manager Michael Lopez.
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There is no permanent fire chief, and interim chief Jarrett Sheldon is said to have been part of the Carlos Elizondo administration when abuses have been documented by an audit that involved steering lucrative patient transfers to a private ambulance to the fiscal detriment of the city.
Elizondo was indicted and faces arraignment this Wednesday on a charge of Theft by a Public Servant and one of Misapplication of Fiduciary Property, both third-degree felonies.
The audit also states that Cabler asserted he knew nothing about the illegal ambulance transfers until this June until the audit committee found out that he knew about it as early as December 2016.
Through all this, Charlie leaves with a nice paycheck that on its face goes contrary to the city charter on back pay, future pay, and limits the number of money credit for unused leave.
Why should taxpayers reward this type of performance with this nice chunk of cash?
We always thought that the $220,000 salary and $6,646 annual car allowance the City of Brownsville paid Charlie Cabler for acting like a city manager was too much for him delivering so little in return.
And we thought that the 2007 contract inked by Cabler and then-mayor Eddie Treviño was overly generous in that it granted Good 'Ole Charlie 260 days of accrued leave pay whether he left voluntarily or involuntarily.
Well, as you can see in the pay stub on the right, Charlie leaves the manager's office October 12 with a golden parachute of $219,973 to speed him on his way.
And to think that we can look back on his 39 years in public service on a legacy of leaving the city in a mess. The city is being run by Assistant City Manager Pete Gonzalez (who signed off on the check) and Deputy manager Michael Lopez.
There is no permanent fire chief, and interim chief Jarrett Sheldon is said to have been part of the Carlos Elizondo administration when abuses have been documented by an audit that involved steering lucrative patient transfers to a private ambulance to the fiscal detriment of the city.Elizondo was indicted and faces arraignment this Wednesday on a charge of Theft by a Public Servant and one of Misapplication of Fiduciary Property, both third-degree felonies.
The audit also states that Cabler asserted he knew nothing about the illegal ambulance transfers until this June until the audit committee found out that he knew about it as early as December 2016.
Through all this, Charlie leaves with a nice paycheck that on its face goes contrary to the city charter on back pay, future pay, and limits the number of money credit for unused leave.
Why should taxpayers reward this type of performance with this nice chunk of cash?