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Package worth $75,000

City gives retiring exec
a ‘modest thank you’

BOB HALLSOR worked
his last day as city clerk-
administrator Sept. 30, but
he’ll continue to draw full
pay and benefits until next
August,

Hallsor, 57, had announc-
ed in May plans to take ear-
ly retirement, likely around
March 1999.

But city council decided
his working days should end
sooner.

The agreement reached
last week sees the 21-year
veteran in charge of city hall
take a leave of absence with
full pay and benefits, except
for holiday pay, until Aug.
31 next year.

Council said the package
~— worth at least $75,000
based on Halisor’s $85,854.
a-year salary — is to take
into account unused and ac-
crued holidays, a normal
pension plan top-up for ser-
vice during his probationary
period, and to serve as a
“modest thank-you bonus
in recognition of long-term
service.”’

“He has given us long,
faithful and excellent ser-
vice,’ mayor Jack Talstra
said Friday.

Talstra said Hallsor put in
much unpaid work, many
“extras”? over the years,
and his long service saved
the city money and disrup-
tion that would have oc-
curred had administrators
moved and been replaced

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IT WAS a time for warm words Oct. 2 in the city council chambers as council
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mayor Jack Talstra, left, with Hallsor. He’s leaving after 21 years of city service.

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In the meantime, deputy
clerk/personnel director
Denise Fisher has taken
over Hallsor’s duties as ac-
ting clerk administrator,
with extra pay of $1,000 a
month.

The annowncement in
council chambers Oct. 2
came amid universally
warn words for Hallsor, as
councillors paid tribute to
his lengthy service and
professionalism.

For his part, Hallsor gave

much credit to his co-
workers on city staff, citing
their cooperative approach
of solving problems,

“1 can't say enough for
them,’® he said.

Hallsor worked under four
Terrace mayors — Gordie
Rowland, David Maroney,
Helmut Giesbrecht and Jack
Talstra — after taking the
city hall job in 1977. He
first came to Terrace in
1963 as public health in-
Spector.

every five or six years.

“We really thought Bob
deserved a thank you of
some sort. We didn’t want it
to be too extravagant,’”’ he
said. ‘*We think it’s fair and
reasonable.’”

The search for Hallsor’s
replacement is already un-
derway, The city has ad-
vertised the position and has
started to receive applica-
tions.

“Some months wili go by
before we have. the - other
person in place,” Talstra
predicted.

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The next person to take
the top spot in city hall
won't be called by the old
title of clerk-administrator
any more, but rather chief
administrative officer.

The name change is part
of changes included in the
new Municipal Act.

Deputy clerk Denise
Fisher will become known
instead as deputy corporate
administrator.

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