South Gate : Ex-Manager to Get $63,500 Settlement
The South Gate City Council has decided to pay $63,500 to former Administrator Bruce Spragg, who was fired last month.
“In order to avoid any possibility (of a lawsuit), we negotiated,” Mayor Robert A. Philipp said after the council approved the severance settlement last Friday. The council also rescinded its Aug. 20 firing of Spragg, who then submitted his resignation.
Spragg, 57, had been the city administrator for more than eight years at an annual salary of $87,000 when he announced on Aug. 13 that he planned to retire in March. The council then asked Spragg to resign by Aug. 17. He refused and the council fired him.
William D. Cornett Jr., a former South Gate city administrator, has been called out of retirement to head the city staff until a new administrator is named. The search for a new administrator could take up to four months, Philipp said.
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