In my last post I spent several paragraphs praising the employment contract that makes Glenn Morrison city manager of Killeen. In this post, I'll analyze the city council's actions with regard to that contract.
Employment contracts are usually written in a jargon particular to that kind of agreement. Words are not always used in their usual sense; precedent often determines how terms are phrased. People untrained in employment law are unlikely to fully understand a well-written employment contract. Given that, it's interesting to speculate "who read that contract?"
Jonathan Okray certainly did, and he had several questions about it. We can assume that Terry Clark, Elizabeth Blackstone and Jared Foster, if they did not read the whole thing, at least understood it based on their participation on the contract negotiation team. I'm willing to concede that Mayor Corbin read it: if he didn't understand it he has staff in his law firm to explain it to him. But where does that leave us with council members Gilmore, Lower and Segarra? As far as I can, none of them has special knowledge in this area, yet none had substantive questions about the contract.
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