Severance agreements do not create new debt and are valid under the Park District Code
By Hon. Russell W. Hartigan & Griffen Thorne
Civil Practice and Procedure,
May 2014
The bottom line in Wheeling Park District v. Arnold is that although park district board members can be given broad authority—like the running of day-to-day operations or the ability to hire and fire—that authority cannot extend to binding a park district in any agreement that “creates any debt, obligation, claim or liability.”
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