Golden handshakes, it's just cone to light (to city council at least) that the CoC has been doling out golden handshakes to many that retire. Now this doesn't surprise me as it's pretty much become an accepted norm that one gets gets packaged out at retirement with some sort of golden handshake, unionized position or not.
What I find intriguing is how we got to this point whereas a golden handshake has become expected and as such, do you expect (deserve maybe) a golden handshake when you retire? Why should one get a bonus to retire?
On a side note, I wonder how many of these golden handshake CoC employees have come back to pretty much their same old job as a subcontractor in the next week or so after? Double dipping, doing the same job while collecting a pension for the same work performed previously.