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April 11: Manchester has agreed to pay Adrienne Beloin $57,000 to resign as the city’s director of housing stability, ending a public spat between her and councillors that lasted more than a week.
A document received through the union leader shows that Beloin earned $5,064. 35 on or before April 23 in exchange for his resignation until 5 p. m. Friday, April 12.
The agreement specifies the following:
—$25,000 in alleged compensatory damages.
—Salary of $27,064. 36.
— $5,000 to Backus, Meyer and Branch LLP for attorneys’ fees and costs.
City Clerk Matt Normand had announced a special meeting of the council of mayors and aldermen at 4:30 p. m. on Thursday at City Hall to discuss a “personnel matter,” but the meeting was canceled shortly before 4 p. m. as news of a charter began. to leave City Hall.
Ten of the board’s 14 members were expected to vote in favor of firing Beloin.
Beloin declined to comment on the deal on Thursday.
A spokesman for Manchester Mayor Jay Ruais announced Beloin’s resignation but declined to comment further, saying “the mayor will not be commenting on personnel matters. “
A source with direct knowledge of the scenario said city officials expect Beloin to sue the city following recent comments from some officials, saying that, in the long run, the settlement would save Manchester the costs of litigation.
On April 1, Manchester councillors voted to order Beloin to work at the Beech Street homeless shelter, saying operations at the site required more “oversight”.
The vote in favor of the measure, by a vote of nine to five, came despite Beloin’s fears that moving its workplace and branch to the shelter at 3nine Beech St. “I would take a step back from a control design that already exists. “
“There are directors, there are managers, there are supervisors in the groups; they don’t want another user to come along and confuse them,” Beloin said before the vote. “It’s not the right resolution for the task at hand.
“We’ve made great strides over the last year that we deserve to be proud of and we deserve to not lose momentum where we’re headed. And I know it’s very difficult for you to perceive what the task is. We do it because it’s not your scope of work,” he said.
The comments angered Councilmember Dan O’Neil, who accused Beloin of talking to board members as if they were “models. “
The Department of Housing Stability operates lately out of the city’s gymnasium at 1528 Elm St.
Efforts to move the Beloin branch stick to a recent two-hour drive to the shelter of Councilmembers Bill Barry and Kelly Thomas, where they reported seeing little evidence of visitors running with representatives of local businesses.
Councilmembers Dan Goonan, Pat Long, Christine Fajardo, Tony Sapienza and Jim Burkush voted to change the department.
Two days later, Beloin went on WFEA radio in Manchester with Drew Cline to push for the vote, accusing board members of political “posturing. “
“The explanation they’re doing this, they say, is because the operation requires more oversight, and that’s not the fact at all,” Beloin said in a 17-minute appearance. “They’re just doing anything to downplay the situation. “They don’t need to pay for the projects needed to really reduce homelessness in Manchester, and they need to sweep everything under the rug.
“It’s a stance on their part. “
A source with direct knowledge of the scenario said relations with Beloin have deteriorated only because of his comments in the media, but also because of his opposition to the political decisions of the council of mayors and councilors, who are the ones who make the political decisions in the city councils. services.
Beloin earned a salary of $104,219 in fiscal year 2023, according to the wage and benefits knowledge released through City Hall. The amount of the salary does not include benefits. City benefits include fitness and dental care, retirement, and vacation for existing employees. .
In a memo to Beloin last Friday, Ruais wrote that he had met with her recently to discuss instances where her habit “ran counter to my expectations and advice. “
“Since that meeting in my office, you have spoken publicly and negatively, to some Board members, to some Board members and myself, and to the Board as a whole, whether at the BMA meeting on April 2, 2024, and in a radio interview in April. November 4, 2024, in a way that is simply untenable for a municipal section chief,” Ruais wrote.
Beloin was hired after Schonna Green, Manchester’s first director of homeless initiatives, resigned from her role in September 2022.
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