A $650,000 retirement payout to a former CEO who headed up a mental health agency in Windham and Windsor counties is raising some eyebrows. Judith Hayward, the former CEO of Health Care and Rehabilitation Services, was on the receiving end of that $650,000 pay-out, and since that figure came to light in an audit, the current human services agency's CEO has decided to travel to Montpelier and explain the number to lawmakers.
Howard Weiss-Tisman has that story in the Brattleboro Reformer and he spoke with VPR's Mitch Wertlieb for our Friday Regional Report.
Melody is the Contributing Editor for But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids and the co-author of two But Why books with Jane Lindholm.
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
