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TESTIMONY (continued) Page six I woutd certainly propose +hat Wayne's employment be terminated at this ttmQ but� none the less, I would hope that for a mo�th or two-, at Ie�st, we couid, under some of the options available , keep the insura�ce going, ih case Wayne couldn't, and then, after a month or two, I think it wouid be up to him to ke'ep it going; assumtng the treatment is Iargely done at that point. The treatment is AxpenS.ive� it's sometime effective and certai�ly a good chance of hope. Because maybe we didn't realize this early enough, per- haps we can at least keep that in mind. Hanson - A thought occurs to me, if he is discharged, if he would have any severence pay availabie? McNiesh - He does have;120 hours of vacatton.time; we don't have severance pay per se. These is some comp ttme that was earned � (approximately 25-30 hours) which 1 assume could be paid. Hanson - I don't want to divulge who the people are, but I've had some very close contacts with people who have fallen much further than you have, and have gone through some of these constructive programs, and am very proud of their present Iives. I know they can be sucaessful. I doubt very seriously that continuing your rehabilita#ion in this-atmosphere of antagonism that you have created for yourself wiil be constructive at ali. In m/ past ex- perience with t�o cases, the��parties were completely severed from thetr previous probiems - not thePr triends and community, but the people they hurt the worst; they didn't go back and associafie intimately with; Iives and interests Cecame enfirely differ.ent; job opportunities became entirely different. Even though a discharge wouid appear to be addTng insult to injury, 1 thfnk, from my associ- ation, it would not be so. In fact, ft's the loss of the job, ai a rule, that precipitates a man to reaily face up to his problem, I�m glad to see that you are doing something abou� your problems. 1 tee{ you��are probably above average in prospects for complete recovery. 1 wouldn!#;fee) comfortable with a probationary period • atter you complet6 your treatment, since we are such a small em- ployment group; if we were many times larger, we couid move you to another part of the City employment; perhaps you are not aware of thfs, but we ha�e even considered combining the supervision of the S parks department and the publTc works; so putting you tn Parks would�'t solve anything; consequently, I can only see that kind of opportuntty as being disruptive to the rest ot the people and prob- ably wouldn't enhance your recovery either. i'd be more inclined not to reinstate you and offer that we pay you part, or all, of this approxtmate 150 hours you might have coming. After heari�g the specific charges and rebuttal, Woodburn moved, seconded by Hanson, that Wayne Launderville be termf�ated from Viltage employment as of November !4, 1978 because of misconduct; Ctty Attorney to establtsh method for City to pay for health and acci- � dent insurance coverage for two months beyond the end of November, and for Launderville to continue the coverage at his expense beyond that date as long as policy wi11 permit, Motion carried unanimously.