MEA general manager may be finished

PALMER – Wayne Carmony’s tenure as general manager of the Matanuska Electric Association appears to be either at its end or very close to it.

“I’m happy that we acted today,” MEA board of directors member Katie Hurley said at the end of the body’s marathon five-hour meeting Monday.

The meeting had two closed sessions, the first of which ended with the board convening to direct its attorney, Robin Brena, to offer Carmony a severance package consistent with a memo Brena distributed to the board members on June 9. The details of that memo were not discussed or otherwise made public.

Board member David Glines said that he agreed that the action needed to be taken but said he did not fully agree with the severance package offer each board member was asked to sign.

Though he signed the offer, he said, “I do intensely disagree with some of the wording.”  

Carmony attended the board’s second closed session, leaving soon after.

Whether he was immediately terminated or just placed on leave was unclear by the end of the meeting. But the last action the board took seemed to imply Carmony is finished.

“I move that we form a search committee [to find] an interim general manager,” board member Kit Jones said.

Her motion passed without objection. The committee will be made up of board members Hurley, Glines and Janet Kincaid.