Marshall, when asked Tuesday evening why his departure was so abrupt, said, “That was the agreement.”

He added this his departure was not spurred by any one thing.

“I was here five years, and that’s probably 1,200 workdays,” he said. “I would suspect I made 50 to 100 decisions every day. You’re talking tens of thousands of decisions. It could have been any number of things ... but there’s no one particular thing we clashed about. We agreed most of the time; sometimes, we disagreed.”

Hawley said the terms of Marshall’s separation had been agreed upon, but for the second day, she said she could not provide a dollar amount for how much he will receive. Marshall, whose base salary was $181,560, could be entitled to seven months of severance pay under his employment agreement, which equates to about $105,000.

Jones faced a media scrum after an economic development announcement Tuesday morning in Scott’s Addition, where he repeatedly told reporters the departure of the man who oversaw City Hall’s daily operations is a “personnel issue.”

“And I’m really sorry,” he added. “I wish I could give you more information, but that’s all I can give you.”