Friday, December 4, 2009
News City Hall department heads announce resignations
Posted by Thomas Wheatley @thomaswheatley on Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 11:55 PM
With less than one month until a new administration moves into City Hall, several department heads under Mayor Shirley Franklin have announced their exits.
Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington and Deputy Chief Alan Dreher have already handed in their walking papers. The mayor's office announced additional resignations today. Unless otherwise noted, all are effective Jan. 3, 2010. They include:
Benita C. Ransom, the Commissioner of Human Resources is retiring on December 9, 2009. Sherri Dickerson, Senior HR Administrator has been appointed by Mayor Franklin as Acting Commissioner of Human Resources.Gregory J. Giornelli, Chief Operating Officer
Gregory Pridgeon, Chief of Staff is also retiring.
Jim Glass, Chief Financial Officer
Current Budget Chief, Roosevelt Council Jr. has been appointed Acting CFO.
Joe Basista, Commissioner of Public Works
Allison Lehr, City of Atlanta Controller
David Edwards, Mayor’s Policy Advisor
Lisa Gordon, Enterprise Asset Management Director
Bobbie Porche, Director of the Office of Constituent Services
Most of the names serve at the pleasure of the mayor, so their exit is expected. In addition to Glass, who joined City Hall on an interim basis, we hear that some Atlanta City Councilmembers are particularly bummed about Basista saying farewell. The former Department of Watershed Management official took the helm of public works in April 2008 and has been considered an effective leader.
Kasim Reed — who, barring any recount drama, we'll soon be able to refer to as "Mayor-elect" — has already begun his likely transition into office. On Dec. 2, he said the search for a new police chief was the most pressing task. Earlier today, the AJC's Cameron McWhirter reported that Reed had tapped business consultant Peter Aman as his chief operating officer. Aman, a partner at Bain & Company, crafted pro bono reports for Franklin that aimed to help the city become more efficient.
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I am curious how the person presiding (and presides?) over our unbelievably FUBAR water department can be called an "effective leader"?
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I might not have been clear in my description of Basista. He's currently (or until he resigns) public works commissioner. I've heard nothing but good things about his work in that department. Prior to joining public works, he was watershed management's deputy director.
Basista picks up the trash on time, and for that we should be grateful. All you privatizers with trash collection in your sights have to explain why a service that works well and guys who visibly work hard deserve to be, well, trashed. OTOH, TW, Basista is one of the engineering consultants who became insiders at DWM along with Hunter and presided over the exorbitant water-sewer program. If self-dealing and wilfully bad bidding practices (see the audit) did not contribute to the cost, then humans have become angels.
Reed's plans coming into focus. http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/atlanta-s-mayoral-vote-227718.html Pension expense high on list, just as in campaign and as reality requires. Ms Ramage in SP does her usual gaga job on the cops and Kasim plays along with her. Let's hope he's balancing giving Kreher some say in the next chief and paying cops a step raise against taking away as much of the cops' unaffordable pension benefits as is legally possible, along with the other employees' pension benefits. Let's hear a clear statement that the 3% annual accrual is no more. Frankly, given the cops had 8 years of 3%, it would be fair to the citizens if they earned zero pension accrual for the next few years until they're back to 2% on average.
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