San Jose Government Workers Live Large: $333,308 for nothing? Trio of ex-employees get hefty severance checks

The San Jose Mercury News reports:

The deputy city manager who was led out of San Jose City Hall by security is getting a six-figure severance check in exchange for not suing.

Alex Gurza, who was unceremoniously canned in December by then-City Manager Ed Shikada -- who himself was facing the ax at the time -- signed an agreement that will pay him $111,460.38 to get lost. That amounts to six months of pay under his old salary, a fairly typical deal for fired high-level executives.

Shikada got six months pay, or $128,750, after agreeing to resign last month, while former Assistant City Manager Pam Antil, who also left in December, got five months pay, or $93,098.27. All told, taxpayers will be giving the trio of former city administrators $333,308.65 to do zilch.

Gurza had temporarily accepted a low-level parks gig at the city after being removed from the city manager's office, as employees not represented by a union are guaranteed some kind of replacement job offer. But the agreement Gurza signed Jan. 24 also undoes that demotion and gives him nearly six weeks of back pay under his old salary.

The special class sure is greedy.