Greeley council pays cash to settle 2 unrelated cases

GREELEY — The Greeley City Council has approved two settlement agreements in unrelated cases — one involving a former city employee and another involving a traffic crash involving a city police officer.

In the first case, approved as part of the consent agenda at Tuesday’s City Council meeting, former interim city finance director Tammy Hitchens was awarded $75,000 in a reciprocal agreement to release all claims against or by the city.

Hitchens was deputy finance director beginning in December 2021; she was named interim finance director June 14, 2023.

The document that the council approved notes that “employee elected not to continue employment…