FARGO (AP) - A state Workforce Safety and Insurance agency board member says he will try to get the board to revisit a severance package given to former chief executive Sandy Blunt.

Ed Grossbauer of Grand Forks, one of two board members who voted against giving Blunt the compensation late last year, said board members were not told of the state attorney general's "serious reservations" before the vote.

"If the attorney general felt that this was something that would have been of question, then the board should have been consulted," Grossbauer said. "I wasn't."

He said he will move to revisit Blunt's severance at the WSI board's next meeting, in early March.

Blunt was put on paid leave in April 2007 when felony charges were filed against him. The charges were later dismissed, and the WSI board reinstated Blunt last fall. He was fired Dec. 6. The board's chairman at the time, Robert Indvik, said Blunt was hamstrung in carrying out his duties in the aftermath of the investigation.

Blunt is being paid his salary, retirement benefits and medical insurance until Aug. 31. The package is worth more than $140,000.

Gov. John Hoeven and David Kemnitz, the president of the North Dakota AFL-CIO, have said Blunt should not get any severance pay.

Documents from Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem's office show that officials there also questioned the compensation. Stenehjem and one of his assistant attorneys general were consulted by WSI lawyers while they drafted the agreement.

"I have conferred with Wayne and can tell you that this office has serious reservations as to the justifications for such a large expenditure," Tag Anderson, an assistant attorney general, wrote to WSI attorney Tim Wahlin on Dec. 21. "Nonetheless, these are ultimately policy and factual determinations for the WSI Board to make."

Board member Mark Jackson said the severance package gave WSI the opportunity to save money and would ward off the threat of litigation, according to minutes from a Dec. 6 meeting.

The state Supreme Court is considering whether to reinstate two felony charges against Blunt.