Prosper Executive Director Will Receive $212,992 in Severance

The former executive director of Prosper Portland who was asked to step down earlier this week by Mayor Keith Wilson, Shea Flaherty Betin, will receive a severance package totaling $212,992—a full year’s salary.

“Prosper Portland used comparable city of Portland agreements to guide the severance settlement amount,” said Prosper spokesman Shawn Uhlman. “This figure is tied to his tenure as the economic development director.”

Wilson acted after Flaherty Betin, who led the agency for just eight months, engaged in a public fight with two city councilors who proposed stripping Prosper of all of its general fund money—$11 million. Though that proposal died at a meeting of the City Council on May 21, the public spat contributed to Wilson’s decision.

The two councilors who proposed taking away