{"id":24451,"date":"2013-06-24T19:27:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=24451"},"modified":"2013-06-24T19:27:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T23:27:54","slug":"new-lee-county-managers-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2013\/06\/new-lee-county-managers-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lee County <br>Manager&#8217;s Contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-24452\" title=\"Roger Desjarlais\" src=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-300x195.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais.png 454w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/>Lee County\u2019s top prospect for county manager, Roger Desjarlais, negotiated a package worth $203,000, according to documents released this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Desjarlais, Lee\u2019s deputy property appraiser and former assistant county manager under Don Stilwell, became the commission\u2019s top prospect after a national search that cost Lee up to $24,000.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The contract, Commission Chair Cecil Pendergrass negotiated, will go up for a vote tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>It provides: $182,000 in salary, $15,000 in tax deferred compensation and $6,000 a year for car allowance.<\/p>\n<p>Desjarlais will also collect 20 vacation days and 18 sick days when he starts work.<\/p>\n<p>The commission can terminate Desjarlais at any time without paying him severance, according to the contract.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Roger-Desjarlais-agreement.pdf\">Copy of the contract<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee County\u2019s top prospect for county manager, Roger Desjarlais, negotiated a package worth $203,000, according to documents released this afternoon. Desjarlais, Lee\u2019s deputy property appraiser and former assistant county manager&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24451\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}