The LVRJ is reporting that Bob Loux has finally resigned. (Go here for a refresher on Loux.)
Loux, age 59, apologized to the commission (and the public) for giving himself and other agency staffers unauthorized pay increases.
Gov. Gibbons has ordered that the salaries in question be corrected to the approved amounts and has asked that the Department of Personnel obtain repayment of the excess.
“This action will ensure that the general fund is reimbursed…and will also ensure that any retirement benefits to employees of the Agency for Nuclear Projects are based on the correct salary levels,” the LVRU reports Gibbons to have said.
Loux’s salary has been rolled back to the 2006 budgeted amount of $104,497 and his retirement will be based on a percentage of his three highest pay years, excluding the unauthorized ones.
Still a pretty good deal for a guy who, according to Stuart Waymire, holds a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Nevada, Reno, did not have credentials for the job, and has done more than anyone to get in the way of a civil, intelligent discussion about Yucca Mountain. (I’ve got excerpts from a book Waymire wrote here.)
Anyway, Loux is out.
As the flight attendants cheerfully say at the end of long, tedious flights, “Buh-Bye now.”
