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Former lodge head received payout of up to $170,105
found no incident of abuse. One month lat- er, Menagh sent a disciplinary letter to Shay criticizing her “largely erroneous views” and claiming she was “blinded by (her) zeal” in reporting the abuse case. Shay, whose job was eliminated shortly after reporting the case of abuse, won her job back after filing a lawsuit against the city and went on to win a whistle-blower retaliation case against the City in October 2011 filed on her behalf by the Ontario Min- istry of Health and Long-Term Care, whose investigators determined an incident of abuse did indeed take place at the lodge. The City also released two sets of redact- ed minutes from closed council decisions revolving around the Derouchie deal, one from a 5 p.m. June 27 meeting that last one hour and 50 minutes and the other from a one-hour 6 p.m. July 11 meeeting. All pertinent information has been re- dacted from the minutes that would have pertained to the Derouchie deal except for the headings “CONFIDENTIAL – Human Re- sources Issue” on June 27 and “CONFIDEN- TIAL – Legal Services” on July 11 All council members were present at the June 27 meeting, as were Fitzpatrick, Labelle-Gelinas, Menagh and general man- ager of financial services, Maureen Adams, who arrived 90 minutes after the meeting began. All council members were again present for the July 11 meeting, but Councillor Les- lie O’Shaughnessy left the meeting at 6:23 p.m. O’Shaughnessy has said he routinely walked out of closed council meetings over frustration with a lack of information from administration. Labelle-Gelinas was also present, as was Adams, Fitzpatrick, Menagh and Mark Boileau, manager of economic development. Derouchie was the first in a string of high-ranking managers and administrators to leave the city over the past two years. Menagh was fired January 11, 2012 just months after the city was convicted of the whistle-blower retalitation. He was award- ed a settlement of $293,000 in salary and benefits over 105 weeks. Fitzpatrick went on paid leave until his
retirement date of Jan. 31 this year, after Kilger on June 29, 2012 he would be leav- ing the city’s top position. Labelle-Gelinas announced her retirement shortly after the
announcement about Fitzpatrick. She re- tired at the end of 2012, after her employ- ment was extended a few months beyond her original retirement date.
GREG KIELEC greg.kielec@eap.on.ca
A former administrator with Glen Stor Dun Lodge, who became embroiled in a city whistle-blower retaliation scandal, received $170,105 in salary, benefits and other costs, according to documents re- ceived by The Journal in response to a Freedom of Information request initiated more than one year ago. Donna Derouchie received 15 months of salary under a deal with the City in July 2011. Based on the figures of her 2012 salary of $118,757 and benefits of $1,327 released in the Ontario government’s Sunshine List late last week, Derouchie would have received $150,105 in salary and benefits by the time she reached her cut-off date of Oct. 7, 2012. Transitional training and legal costs totally no more than $10,000 each would put the maximumpayout to Derouchie at $170,105. SEVERED VERSION The information is contained in a severed version of the minutes of settlement cover- ing the termination of Derouchie’s employ- ment, signed by Derouchie, Mayor Bob Kilg- er and then clerk Denise Labelle-Gelinas on July 5, 2011. The minutes of settlement were not signed by then-CAO Paul Fitzpat- rick, although it is unclear why. The release of the information under or- der of IPCO ajudicator Diane Smith culmi- nates a 15-month battle The Journal has waged with the City – which included a number of appeals and couter-appeals – to determine the amount of taxpayer dollars spent on the settlement. The deal was brokered with Derouchie – who quietly left her top job at the lodge in July 2011 – just months before the city was to head to trial on a charge it had retaliated against a whistle-blower, Diane Shay, who had reported a May 2008 case of abuse at Glen Stor Dun Lodge against the wishes of city administration. Shay was criticized by then human re- sources manager Robert Menagh, who told Shay in June 2008 that Derouchie had
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