Penticton Councillor Judy Sentes was employed with the Okanagan-Similkameen Neurological Society from August 1994 until her retirement on July 8, 2013.

Sentes claims in court documents that she entered into an agreement with the society whereby she would receive a payment upon retirement.

She was hired as the Executive Director (Chief Fundraiser) but agreed to receive less pay than other professionals working at the OSNS.

She relied on the agreement to provide a retirement payment. According to the document, that agreement has since been lost along with other important records.

In May, 2013, the society’s board approved a finance committee’s recommendation of a retirement payment to Sentes in two parts, a lump sum coupled with monthly payments aimed at assisting her with continued health benefits coverage.

The lump sum payment, payable in January 2014, was $12, 829.59 and the monthly payments equaled $198.53, until such payments reached a maximum of $12,115.24.

Her claim in courts states the society failed to make the lump sum payment and terminated the monthly payments required by the agreement in July, 2014.

With files from Castanet

October 25 2012 Penticton Western

“The friendships, the partnerships have been truly phenomenal. The generosity people have continues to overwhelm me. They hear about the need and they respond,” said Judy Sentes. “These children are our future and it really is important that we give them all of the support and intervention we can so that they can be the best they can be.”

This will be the 33rd anniversary for the telethon raising funds for the OSNS. Sentes recalls when she first started they were raising $85,000, she said now they raise upwards of $300,000