DECATUR, Ala. (AP) - An Alabama city has only two revenue department workers after two abrupt departures of the department’s longest serving employees in April.
The Decatur Daily reports that the manager of the department retired early and an auditor quit.
Manager Sal Jasso had been with the city 27 years and with the Revenue Department for 14. Auditor Julia Wells had been in the Revenue Department almost three years. They provided little information to the newspaper on their reasons for leaving their jobs.
Jasso’s retirement as manager takes effect July 1, but he is using vacation time until then that otherwise would have been cashed out at his retirement.
“I guess I’m just on vacation until I retire,” Jasso said last week. “I have comp time and vacation time to be off until then, but I’m afraid of any type of retaliation if I were to talk about it.”
Wells submitted a resignation letter April 27 that said she was leaving “due to a hostile work environment,” according to documents obtained by The Decatur Daily through a public records request. She declined to give specifics when interviewed by the newspaper, saying she wanted to speak with her attorney first.
Decatur Chief Financial Officer Kyle Demeester oversees the department. He said two permanent employees will start May 17. And he said the city recently posted the manager’s job.
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