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Lawsuit says Savannah Center didn’t pay up
A local conference center is being sued by one of its former vice presidents.
Martin Stuart, of Hamilton, says the Savannah Center owes him $8,900 for services he provided as the vice president of marketing from November 2007 through August 2008, according to the lawsuit.
Filed in Butler County Area III Court Nov. 13, the lawsuit names Savannah Center, 5533 Chappell Crossing, West Chester Event Center, at the same address, and Barry A. Spaeth, 7 W. Seventh St., in Cincinnati. Spaeth is defined in the lawsuit as the statutory agent.
Stuart’s attorney, Patrick Nesbitt, of West Chester, said in the lawsuit the Savannah Center had a history of paying his client for marketing duties he had performed up to August.
The lawsuit claims Stuart performed $6,900 worth of services in August and $2,000 worth of services in September. Stuart said he stopped working for the conference and event center in mid-September because his payment was more than a month overdue, according to the lawsuit.
Officials from the Savannah Center declined to comment.
“I was in shock,” Stuart said about not being paid. “This is really killing me because I loved working there.”
Stuart said he never received any form of communication that he was fired from the Savannah Center or that his contract with them was terminated.
Stuart was hired by George Rees, the former president and chief executive officer of the Savannah Center, who the lawsuit says was terminated in August.
Rees declined to comment.
As of Nov. 21, a court date had not been set.
The 42,000-square-foot center opened Nov. 29, 2007.
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