Public invited to farewell for Joyce Wilson at 5:30 pm today
The City of El Paso will be holding a farewell reception for former City Manager Joyce Wilson at 5:30 p.m. today at the Plaza Theatre’s MacGuire Hall.
City officials tell ABC-7 the reception is being paid for by private donors.
Earlier this month El Paso City Council approved amending her contract with the City so she would be a consultant to the City through Sept. 3.
Wilson also has accepted a job as interim CEO of Upper Rio Grande Workforce Solutions.
Council members Carl Robinson, Eddie Holguin and Lily Limon voted not to amend her contract contract , with the final vote being 4-3.
She will be a paid city employee with full benefits through Sept. 3, giving up about a month’s salary with the city. Once the contract ends, her pension from retirement will be approximately $60,000 annually.
Wilson was offered the interim Chief Executive Officer job at Workforce Solutions on June 4 after the sudden resignations of then CEO Lorenzo Reyes Jr. and then Chief Operating Officer Teofilo Ugalde were accepted by the board of managers.
Workforce officials said Wilson’s salary would be about $142,000 a year, significantly less than her salary at the city, which is about $240,000 a year.
Wilson would oversee employment, education and economic development programs and up to $50 million of federal and state grants.
She’d answer to Workforce’s 23-member board which is overseen by seven regional elected leaders, including Mayor Oscar Leeser, County Judge Veronica Escobar and the five County Judges for the West Texas counties the organization serves.
