Youngstown approves severance pay for former city cop

YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s board of control approved a $3,528.42 severance package today for former police Patrolman Daniel Tickerhoof, who recently left the department.

The package is for unused compensatory time and vacation days.

The city paid $70,000 in back pay and damages last month to Tickerhoof, improperly fired by the city in September 2006. The city fired Tickerhoof because he moved from Youngstown a few months after the state Legislature overturned residency requirement laws in cities such as Youngstown.

Youngstown rehired Tickerhoof in July after the Ohio Supreme Court upheld the Legislature’s decision.