{"id":4600,"date":"2022-04-20T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T01:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2022-04-20T20:42:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T03:42:20","slug":"countys-health-and-human-services-director-resigns-gets-165k-severance-pay-mountain-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/04\/20\/countys-health-and-human-services-director-resigns-gets-165k-severance-pay-mountain-democrat\/","title":{"rendered":"County\u2019s Health and Human Services Director Resigns, Gets $165k Severance Pay &#8211; Mountain Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(<a title=\"Posts by Eric Jaramishian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mtdemocrat.com\/author\/ejaramishian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener\">Eric Jaramishian<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>PLACERVILLE, Calif. \u2014 Don Semon stepped down as El Dorado County\u2019s Health and Human Services Agency director April 19 and received nine months severance pay \u2014 about $165,000 \u2014 on the way out. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Mr. Semon has submitted his voluntary resignation and will explore other opportunities outside the county.<\/strong>\u201d According to the statement, the county agreed to pay out Semon the nine months severance pay, plus any other payouts to which he is entitled, while Semon agreed to waive any claims against the county. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<strong>The board\u2019s action was a mistake. This huge payout will be very bad for morale and is unfair to the taxpayers,<\/strong>\u201d Harn said. \u201c<strong>The county has a number of very hard-working employees and they won\u2019t understand this board action.<\/strong>\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mtdemocrat.com\/news\/semon-resigns-to-get-165k-in-severance-pay\/?utm_source=InEDC&amp;utm_medium=News&amp;utm_campaign=Placerville&amp;utm_content=Eyeballs-via-Placerville-Newswire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ FULL STORY\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.edcgov.us\/Government\/hhsa\/PublishingImages\/Don%20Semon%20for%20website.jpg\" width=\"1580\" height=\"1648\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Eric Jaramishian) PLACERVILLE, Calif. \u2014 Don Semon stepped down as El Dorado County\u2019s Health and Human Services Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay.webp",800,611,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay-600x458.webp",600,458,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay-768x587.webp",640,489,true],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay.webp",640,489,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay.webp",800,611,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay.webp",800,611,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay.webp",800,611,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay.webp",800,611,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay-720x530.webp",720,530,true],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/severance-pay-350x350.webp",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}