Perry O’Malley is out as the executive director of the Housing and Redevelopment Authority of the County of Butler.

The authority board on Friday fire O’Malley, accusing him of using authority resources for personal and private business endeavors that are a conflict of interest with the authority.

The board said O’Malley, who had been on paid administrative leave since Jan. 15, also abused authority travel time, travel expenses and leave time, and neglected his duties.

Authority solicitor Andrew Menchyk said a complaint against O’Malley came before the board in early January.

“I can’t get into the nature of the allegations,” Menchyk said, citing O’Malley’s rights as a civil service employee.

O’Malley can appeal the decision to the state Civil Service Commission.

O’Malley could not be reached for comment. His attorneys attended the authority’s meeting but did not comment.

Chairwoman Margaret Clawson said the authority’s board met in an executive session Jan. 14 to discuss the complaints against O’Malley.

“We emphasize, these were only concerns and we had no evidence to determine the veracity of the concerns,” Clawson said in a prepared statement read at the board meeting.

“The board did what was right and put in place a process to either confirm or refute the concerns, while protecting the due process rights to everyone involved and in full compliance with the many state and federal rules we must follow as a public housing authority.”

The board in February approved the hiring of attorney Neva Stanger, the head of the labor and employment group at the Wexford law-firm Cafardi, Ferguson, Wyrick, Weis + Stanger LLC, to investigate the allegations.

The board said the firm and the authority’s interim management team went through thousands of pages of documents and conducted dozens of interviews.

Attorney John Trant has been acting executive director during O’Malley’s leave.

The board said O’Malley was placed on leave during this time to ensure an “unfettered” investigation, the board said.

Menchyk said O’Malley continued to receive his $128,000 annual salary until evidence could be collected to warrant further action on the allegations against him.

“With Civil Service, any suspension is considered a form of discipline, which would need to have a cause,” he said. “The investigation was to find that cause.”

Because of that O’Malley was paid while on leave until the authority had specific evidence to fire him.

The authority Friday introduced Michael McNierney, the executive director of the Erie County Housing Authority, who will help serve as an interim executive director for the Butler County authority.

Trant also will continue to work for the authority

Menchyk said the authority will find a new executive director, but he could not give a timetable on how long that might take.