What you need to know:

• A separation agreement between Palmer and former City Manager Stephen Jellie prevents the city from sharing details about his resignation or tenure with future employers. The city can only say his departure was due to "a difference in management styles."
• Jellie resigned following concerns that his personnel practices could mire the city in lawsuits and after he placed the police chief on administrative leave for questioning his directives. Jellie will receive a $75,000 severance as part of his exit, a condition of his employment contract. This marks his third similar resignation agreement in less than two years.
• An interim city manager has not been named. Palmer’s police chief remains on administrative leave and can only be reinstated by a city manager. A meeting to pick an interim manager is scheduled for Tuesday.

PALMER - A separation agreement between Palmer and former City Manager Stephen Jellie blocks officials from sharing with any of his potential future employers details of Jellie's resignation or brief but tumultuous tenure as Palmer's administrative leader.

Jellie resigned last week after the city attorney warned that his personnel practices put Palmer at "imminent risk" of lawsuits. He was hired in August and held the position for 53 days.