Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim will request at council’s next meeting in September that the value of the severance to be paid out to recently departed city manager Paul Mochrie be made public.

In July, Sim announced via a media release that he and Mochrie “mutually agreed that it was the right time for a leadership change” at the City of Vancouver. The city has refused to disclose details of Mochrie’s severance.

On Thursday, the mayor’s office sent an email to BIV announcing that Sim wants Mochrie’s severance released to the public. He will formally make a request at the Sept. 16 council meeting.

“In the past, when a city manager was terminated, severance amounts were released right away as part of that process,” Sim said in the email. “In Paul Mochrie’s case, we reached a mutual cessation o

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