Mihelich requests full severance, City Commission ‘not inclined to accept’
EBS STAFF
On Feb. 15, the City of Bozeman released a statement summarizing the outcome of Tuesday’s special meeting about recent conduct by City Manager Jeff Mihelich.
Comments by Mihelich, captured on video and leaked, were covered in detail by the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
Shared via press release, the statement is as follows:
“On Monday, Feb. 12, Bozeman City Commission adopted the following motions: a motion to ask the City Manager to resign by Wednesday, Feb. 14; and a motion to direct the City Attorney’s office to draft an ethics complaint. We tabled a motion to initiate an external investigation into the City Manager’s conduct. The Commission may take this tabled motion up at a future public meeting.
Since then, City Manager Jeff Mihelich has offered to resign on the condition he be provided full severance as stated in the Employment Agreement. At this time, the City Commission is not inclined to accept resignation with full severance.
We currently anticipate an ethics complaint being presented for consideration at the March 5, 2024 City Commission meeting. [The] Commission may decide to authorize the filing of the complaint at this meeting.”The statement added that more information on the ethics process can be found in the Bozeman Municipal Code at Chapter 2, Article, 3, Division 4.
