The law department handles civil issues for the city and union negotiations. It also includes the city’s human resources department.
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“Les, if he follows through … is due to retire October of ‘17,” Adkins said of Landen, who is paid $104,355 annually. “We will have to continue to work on that. We are therefore keeping all of the other assistant law directors rotating in civil issues, city council meetings, union negotiations, human resources, so that we have a pool of people available to handle everything that goes after he retires.”
Two part-time employees are in the city’s human resources department, which is within the law department, so it’s important to “get all the institutional knowledge that we can out of Les” and the human resources people as possible, Adkins said.
“We’ve got a big transition year in ‘17,” Adkins said.
Landen, a Miami University graduate who completed nearly all his class work at the Middletown campus, declined to comment.
“He said right now he’s not ready to discuss anything, because nothing is set, an official date or anything,” said Julie Owsley, an assistant in the city’s law department.
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