There was simply no way after cutting 450 jobs and declaring a multi-million dollar deficit that Metro and Tim Hagan could continue working together.
The former commissioner announced he is leaving his part-time, $90,000/year gig with the county-financed hospital which he started back in January. His last day will be Friday.
Hagan’s hiring was drew criticism from the start, especially among Metro staffers who were watching jobs being eliminated as Hagan began drawing a paycheck, because of his ties to Metro Top Men and the hospital’s precarious fiscal situation.
Metro has been blitzed with a near-constant barrage of bad PR this year. From questions about their consultant-hiring practices to layoffs to severance packages for departed executives to the dismal deficit numbers from this week, Metro hasn’t shined brightly in the public’s eye.
Hagan and Metro parting ways was the bare minimum the hospital could do at this point. In fact, it was overdue given their situation. After the jump, statements from Hagan and Metro, the latter of which says Hagan did good work in his three-day-a-week gig.
This article appears in Sep 28 – Oct 4, 2011.
so how many people will NOT lose their jobs if mr. hagan is gone?
Judgement day wont be soon enough for this schiester
Is he still married to Kate Mulgrew? And what was she thinking??