Hospital exec’s $4M retirement package blasted
Posted: 05/03/2011 08:19:14 AM PDT
SALINAS, Calif.—Officials at a public hospital district in Salinas are coming under fire after awarding their former CEO nearly $4 million in retirement payments in addition to his regular $150,000-a-year pension.
State Assemblyman Luis Alejo of Watsonville says the retirement package for Samuel Downing, the former chief of the Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare District, is “unconscionable.”
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