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Al Grieshaber Jr. resigns as general manager at the opening of the Sun 'N Lake Board of Supervisors regular meeting Friday morning.
published: Sunday, August 29, 2010 
Tension leads to Sun 'N Lake GM resignation By ED BALDRIDGE SEBRING -- Tension between the Sebring Sun 'N Lake Board of Supervisors and their general manager prompted a conditional resignation from Al Grieshaber Jr. at the opening of their regular meeting Friday morning. The board accepted the resignation, and conditions, from Grieshaber with a 3-2 vote. Supervisors Frank Guglielmi and Diana Johnson cast the dissenting votes. "He decided to take the high road after we had a discussion last week. We have not been seeing eye to eye, so to speak," board president David Halbig said after the marathon meeting Friday. "I think this is the best resolution, I suggested to him on Tuesday that he should resign rather than me making the motion to terminate him. That gives him some benefits that a termination would not give him," Halbig said. The improvement district has recently struggled to meet loan obligations due to what Attorney John McClure said was assessment collection issues because of the economy. Fifth-Third Bank recently notified the improvement district that its $10 million bank note was in default. In November of 2009, the district could not pay the full interest and principle, which prompted the bank to initiate a consultant to look into the situation. After Grieshaber and his staff notified Focus Management Group, who Fifth-Third asked to review the district's records, that some of the records would have to be handled as a public records request, which would cost about $2,000 to research, and needed to be paid in advance, the bank threatened litigation on Aug. 16 and gave the district until Aug. 23 to pay back its note. According to McClure, the bank also threatened to put the district into receivership. Halbig stated that Grieshaber's resignation was not brought upon by the current bank issues, but that it has been building for sometime. "Al has the capacity for hard work, we have just not been seeing eye-to-eye on things," Halbig said Friday. Halbig suggested to the board that they take a look at a consulting firm to help with the district management until a permanent replacement could be found. "We can do that because Al's recent resignation put us into a state of emergency, but we cannot have them as a permanent replacement without going out for bid," McClure advised the board during their meeting. Grieshaber's resignation becomes official on Aug. 31, but he had offered to act as a consultant if needed. The board also agreed to pay Grieshaber and provide benefits through Feb. 28, 2011 as well as a lump sum payment for his vacation and sick leave.  SNL (by: just me - 8/31/2010) Oh MR.Eck!! did you forget your medication this morning!!!. no peace or harmony from that crew i can see coming only more problems. And i am very aware of what is going on there, so i stand by my comments. Sun N Lake GM (by: Joe Eck - 8/30/2010) Just me;;;First off if you don't know what you are talking about you should check up on it frist,I am not one of the Golfers,but I am75 years young.If you live in S.N.L. and had been following what has been going on for the last 10 years that I have been hare you would talk out the other side of your MOUTH. The golfers are not the only ones that is glad that the Board gave the G.M. a chose.Also it is not all the Golfers that is the bad apples,but the click of the old board that was behind the old board. (about45 or 50 that want everyone to pay to keep the Golf Course up.) Just keep watching the 3 new Board Members and peace and harmony will come. Sun N Lake (by: just me - 8/29/2010) well it looks like the old goats of SNL have done it again, they pushed another great manager out the door.The bottom line here is that GOD himself could come manage this place and those bitter old goats would find fault with him, why!!! because this is a group of old cranky hateful goats who have no life!!! what so ever other than drinking and golf so they take there misery out on everyone else. i could understand if SNL was working in the red but they are not!!!, and because this man STOOD UP to all you old nasty farts well he just had to go. what a bunch of losers!!!!. do the people of SNL and i mean ALL the people not just the booze guzzling, golfers, along with wrinkled old wives. AND MOVE BACK TO THE YANKEE STATE YOU CAME FROM. Oh and as far as agreeing to pay him. uh he has somthing called A CONTRACT!!! you had to honor his contract and you know that so don't walk around in your bladder pad underwear thinking you did him a favor.  Small Banner AdsFeatured PhysicianFeatured AutoFeatured AttorneyMarketplace AdsTile Ads
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