PARIS — Former Town Manager Phil Tarr will receive more than $9,600 in unemployment benefits over 26 weeks, Town Manager Amy Bernard announced this week.

At Monday’s meeting of the Board of Selectmen, resident Kathy Richardson noted that Tarr has joined the rolls of people receiving unemployment from the town.

“That’s one more thing we’re going to have to stretch to pay,” Richardson said.

Bernard said the town couldn’t contest Tarr’s claim for unemployment, because of the termination agreement and because he was not terminated for misconduct.

“We’re required by law to pay it,” Bernard said. She said Tarr’s first unemployment bill had been submitted.

On Tuesday, Bernard said Tarr was receiving $372 per week over 26 weeks for a total of  $9,672.

In June of 2012, the board voted not to renew Tarr’s contract and agreed to give him $20,394 in severance pay, plus benefits, for six months. His last day was Sept. 14, six months ago.

At the meeting, town Finance Director Marjorie Risica said she’d been told that Bernard shared medical information about her at an executive session at which she was not present.

“Was my disease mentioned?” Risica asked.

Bernard said anything discussed was done in executive session and confidential, therefore she couldn’t discuss what was said. She said in an email Tuesday that the town “is required to notify an employee in advance only if the Town is bringing an instigation or charge against the employee. This was not the case.”

Bernard said Risica had permission to call the town’s attorney, Geoff Hole, about the issue.

Risica’s husband, Michael Risica, also spoke. “I’m so disappointed in you guys that this thing actually got out into the street,” Risica said. He said that if the information came out at a February executive session as he’d heard, then Bernard “should resign and step aside.”

“This is wrong,” he said.

“I feel violated and very disappointed,” Marjorie Risica said. After she spoke, Risica received a round of applause from residents at the meeting.

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