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City Moved to "Separate" Public Service Director's Employment

City of Kalamazoo

City of Kalamazoo Public Services Director Sue Foune has resigned. That was after the City Manager’s office “exercised the right to separate employment with or without cause” in Foune’s case, according to Deputy City Manager Jeff Chamberlain.

Foune had been with the city for about 24 years, and had directed Public Services since 2013. The city announced the resignation in a press release Thursday.

Chamberlain says that Foune chose to resign after the city manager’s office moved to separate employment, adding that Foune was an at-will employee of the city. When asked directly, Chamberlain would not say whether Foune would have been fired if she had not resigned.

In its press release, the city says it will conduct a search for a new public services director “in the immediate future.”
 

Sehvilla Mann joined WMUK’s news team in 2014 as a reporter on the local government and education beats. She covered those topics and more in eight years of reporting for the Station, before becoming news director in 2022.
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