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APS pays Vigil to go One year's salary for administrator charged with DWI
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Michael Vigil, the former Albuquerque Public Schools administrator
arrested last year for DWI, left the school district this week with a
$176,500 settlement.
The district's chief business officer spent his last day at work
Tuesday.
The settlement amounts to about one year's salary in addition to
what the district owed on his contract through June 30, including
unused leave and insurance benefits.
Vigil was a high-profile member of Superintendent Beth Everitt's
cabinet w...
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