2 hours ago Share Citing her daughter s failing health, Holland steps down. A special meeting will be held May 19 to discuss next steps.
Updated 8 p.m. May 18
Mayor Milissa Holland has resigned.
Her adult daughter, Tori, has been in dire health for years, and Holland needs to perform her most important role first, she said. I m incredibly proud of being a mom, Holland said in a May 18 phone call with the
Palm Coast Observer. Your kids come before anything else.
Her last words in her last City Council meeting, on the morning of May 18, just hours before she resigned, also showed her focus on her role as mother: She told the council that she missed a recent event so that she could spend time with her son, who was visiting for the first time in years, from Germany.
Palm Coast has agreed to pay $12,500 to its former human resources director to settle a lawsuit she filed against the city alleging the city reneged on a severance agreement.
Besides the $12,500 settlement, Debbie Streichsbier will retain all sums paid to her after the end of her employment, according to the settlement agreement. The settlement does not specify what those sums were.
But Streichsbier was paid $17,520 for accrued sick pay, administrative leave and vacation after she was fired from the city. The city then fired an employee who authorized the payment to Streichsbier, saying she had done so without approval from City Manager Matt Morton.
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Palm Coast City Council member Victor Barbosa made a motion to fire City Manager Matt Morton Tuesday night, saying the manager had targeted him by placing his name on code enforcement complaints against residents when the complainant’s name is not typically included on the forms.
Barbosa s motion died for lack of a second.
“I ask my fellow council members to support me in a motion to terminate Mr. Morton for gross misconduct and misuse of government resources and undermining the council,” Barbosa said. “Mr. Morton raises questions of his integrity, honesty and his fitness to remain a city manager.”