I AWAIT with anticipation what the government information commissioner's decision will be after the investigation into how City of York Council handled the ex-commercial services director David Finnegan's so-called early-retirement package, (March 11).

How will the city council recuperate the financial settlement over the next five years that it is going to take to pay Mr Finnegan? Will it be by further increases in the council tax I wonder? Or will it be at the expense of a public facility?

Terry Smith,

Fourth Avenue,

Heworth, York.

Updated: 10:58 Saturday, March 18, 2006