File 03 · The county job
Theresa Garza's county job.
Hired Oct. 14, 2025. Her employment ended Apr. 24, 2026. 192 days.
Both dates are the county's own record. The Executive's letter offered a resignation dated April 17 and gave her until the end of business April 23, adding: “I will then act to terminate your employment.” The county's record ends it the next day, 21 days before the May 15 pay-through that offer named.
Jackson County disclosure R009789-100826 · the letter, Apr. 2026
The county’s own record
We asked the county for its file. Here is what came back.
A personnel record can be closed, but the dates, the position and the rate came back in the county’s own words. Read them next to the letter that ended it.
Position
Chief of Staff
Start
Oct. 14, 2025
End
Apr. 24, 2026
Days, start to finish
192
Jackson County disclosure R009789-100826. It states the annual salary rate as $198,494.40; the letter rounds it to $199,000. The letter gave her until the end of business Apr. 23, 2026, and the county’s record ends the employment the next day, 21 days short of the May 15 pay-through that offer named.
In a hurry? The letter in 30 seconds
She was hired at $199,000 a year, a political appointment.
Chief of Staff to the Jackson County Executive, not a merit hire, a political appointee cashing in on politics. The salary is named in the letter itself.
Six months later, the county fired her.
The ultimatum is in writing: resign by April 23, "or you will receive a termination letter."
The reasons are in writing.
"Stealing county resources." "No loyalty above your self-promotion." "I finally lost all confidence in your ability to serve."
That's the whole story. Everything below is the proof, read the full annotated letter →
While Raytown budgets got tighter
$0
a year, her taxpayer-funded Chief of Staff salary
$0/hr
roughly what that salary costs taxpayers per working hour
0.0×
the median Raytown household income ($68,840, Census ACS)
0 mos
from appointment to the letter that ended it
“I will not be bullied by someone I overpaid and gave an amazing opportunity who just wanted to have more of the limelight than she got.”[1]
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