The Tallahassee City Commission is set to consider a five-year employment agreement Wednesday with incoming City Manager Karen Jumonville that would pay her $317,000 annually and require a two-thirds vote of the commission to remove her from office.
The proposed contract would run from Oct. 1, 2026, through Sept. 30, 2031, and includes 20 weeks of severance pay, a $1,000 monthly automobile allowance and a city contribution to a 457 retirement account.
Perhaps the most consequential provision deals with termination.
Under the proposed agreement, Jumonville could only be removed by an affirmative vote of two-thirds of the City Commission. With five commissioners, that would effectively require four votes to terminate the city manager rather than the three votes needed for most commission actions.
According to the city, the provision mirrors the employment terms of Tallahassee’s Inspector General. The remainder of the agreement is based on contracts used for the city’s appointed officials.
The contract comes one week after a divided City Commission selected Jumonville as the successor to longtime City Manager Reese Goad.
On Sept. 2, commissioners voted 3-2 to select Jumonville following public interviews with three finalists identified through a nationwide search. The commission then directed the mayor to negotiate an employment agreement for consideration at its Sept. 9 meeting.
Jumonville currently serves as Tallahassee’s deputy city manager and previously served as assistant city manager and Growth Management director.
The selection followed a search that began after Goad announced on April 28 that he would retire effective Sept. 30 or upon selection of his successor. Goad has served as city manager since September 2018 after being named interim manager in November 2017.
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