{"id":2437633,"date":"2019-01-30T20:32:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T03:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/outgoing-aspen-city-manager-works-way-into-protected-class\/"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:32:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T03:32:01","slug":"outgoing-aspen-city-manager-works-way-into-protected-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/outgoing-aspen-city-manager-works-way-into-protected-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Outgoing Aspen city manager works way into protected class"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">The Jan. 28 Aspen Times reported on the separation agreement between the city and City Manager Steve Barwick (<a id=\"N0x1582130N0x160b9d0:N0x1582130N0x1454720\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/aspen-officials-sign-off-on-separation-with-city-manager\/\">&#8220;Aspen officials sign off on separation with city manager&#8221;<\/a>). The article notes that the agreement doesn&#8217;t bar Mr. Barwick from suing the city for age discrimination and the like.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As I&#8217;ve written before, the Aspen Home Rule Charter prohibits City Council from setting a term of years on the city manager&#8217;s employment. This must be changed (a public vote is required) so City Councils are forced to make affirmative decisions whether to renew a city manager&#8217;s contract. We got into a pickle over Mr. Barwick because successive City Councils were able to kick the proverbial can year after year until, gosh, he&#8217;s been here 19 years and he&#8217;s old enough to sue over age discrimination if we fire him now. Whoops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Maurice Emmer<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/outgoing-aspen-city-manager-works-way-into-protected-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jan. 28 Aspen Times reported on the separation agreement between the city and City Manager Steve Barwick (&#8220;Aspen officials sign off on separation with city manager&#8221;). The article notes that the agreement doesn&#8217;t bar Mr. Barwick from suing the city for age discrimination and the like. As I&#8217;ve written before, the Aspen Home Rule [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2437633","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 23:49:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2437633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2437633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2437633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2437633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2437633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}