Tuesday, October 14, 2008
News Atlanta gets new CFO
Posted by Scott Henry @ScottTheHenry on Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:57 PM
Mayor Shirley Franklin announced Monday that the city had found someone willing to take over Atlanta's very troubled finance department. You'll remember that the city's last CFO, Janice Davis, flew the coop to take a job in Texas a few months into Atlanta's well-publicized budget meltdown.
Pending Council approval, the next CFO looks to be one Jim Glass, a retired 29-year veteran of various Bellsouth divisions who most recently served as CFO and vice president of finance for AT&T Mobility. I've been told Glass wasn't the city's first choice; the job had been offered to other retired corporate financial executives, who turned it down. But, as one Council member explained, "
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