Michelle Tesser, the former Inver Grove Heights city clerk, is getting $89,600 in severance as part of a separation agreement with the city. The City Council approved the agreement July 22, and it became public after being finalized last week.
Tesser, who had filed a discrimination complaint against the city with the Minnesota Department of Human Rights (MDHR), agreed to withdraw her discrimination complaint to the state, but the agreement "doesn't preclude the MDHR or EEOC (U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) from pursuing a charge of discrimination against the city."
She had been on paid administrative leave since April.
The Department of Human Rights said that by law it cannot comment on the incident.
Tesser and her attorney could not be reached for comment after the council vote last month.
Erin Adler
Washington County
Government campus adds parcel of land
Washington County is adding a parcel of land and a building to its Government Center campus in Stillwater.
The property, on 60th Street N., sits between Hwy. 36 and the county government center and jail.
The County Board approved the $300,000 purchase of the property in July. The parcel, approximately one-third acre of land with a house, will complete the southern side of the government campus and offer space for future expansion.
