City planner gets his wish, terminated by Boston
City planner Kairos Shen got his wish: He was fired, The Boston Globe reported Wednesday.
The Walsh administration wanted Shen to resign as it seeks to install new leadership for a 2030 planning project. Shen asked to be terminated instead, in order to take advantage of what the Globe called a “little-used’’ law that bumps compensation for employees fired for politically-motivated reasons.
That law could bump Shen’s annual pension to $71,000 for the rest of his life — more than double the $35,000 a year he would have received had he resigned.
A spokesman for the Boston Redevelopment Authority declined to comment on whether Shen will actually receive that higher pension.
Shen worked for the city and the BRA for 22 years and will leave his post at the end of May, the Globe reports. In the meantime, he’ll work alongside Tad Read, who was appointed acting director of planning by the BRA until it finds a successor, BRA director Brian Golden said.
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