Severance packages for retiring mayor, councilors will cost Ottawa taxpayers $500,000.
Ottawa taxpayers will be on the hook for more than $500,000 in severance packages for Mayor Jim Watson and the eight councilors not seeking re-election this fall. The City of Ottawa offers a “transitional allowance” of one month’s salary for each consecutive month of service, up to a maximum of six months, to councilors who …
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