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Boston to get new chief of advocacy and strategic investment
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Another successful nation-wide search?
Am guessing the seven figure salary (plus pension) nets out to one libraian and one librarian's assistant.
Fair at twice the price.
Marian Walsh?
How come this patronage/ escape hatch appointment isn't getting framed the same way? I've never heard of this position before- who held it formerly?
Two Words:
Fourth Term.
Over on your side of the Charles, you handed Menino a blank check last November.
And working librarians (and library branches) need not apply.
St. Fleur, a Dorchester
So she'll have four different jobs? Advocacy, strategic investment, Haitian relief(!) and polisher of felons. Maybe they'll ring a bell when she changes jobs. Interesting that the news was announced on a Friday afternoon - obviously a big deal.
what the #$!@ is Boston doing in Haiti?
What the hell is Boston doing being involved in ANY WAY with "Haiti relief efforts"?
People, it's crap like this that fuels libertarian weirdos and "tea party" idiots. Rightly do. What the HELL are my city tax dollars doing with ANYTHING related to Haiti?
Also, does "strategic investment" include "not paying one's taxes"?
Haiti Relief
Mayor Menino set up a fund for PRIVATE donations to assist Haitian family members of Bostonians and the city is providing assistance to Haitian families with family members in Haiti. I don't live in the city, but I really don't see anything wrong with the city providing a service to it's constituents trying to find lost family members. I doubt it increased expenses to do this. Plus, I highly doubt St. Fleur's salary would be any less without that title. I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a tea-partier that would speak out against charity.
One thing I have noticed about the teafolk is that they tend to be reactionaries who make comments without looking into what they're talking about first.
Aside from the simple issue of human kindness ...
There are a lot of Haitian-American residents in Boston (enough to help get two elected as state reps). After the earthquake, yes, the city set up centers to try to help those residents get in contact with relatives there or just give them somebody to talk to, and, yes, it did try to raise private funds for earthquake relief. It's constituent relations at its best.
But dammit, I'm glad to live in a city that would do something to help out its residents in a time of crisis.
Kinda, sorta not a new job
The Globe reports she's more or less replacing Michael Contompasis, who's retiring to work on some private-sector project related to education form. Or rather, retiring again, since he retired as Boston Latin School headmaster and then retired again as acting school superintendent after Carol Johnson was hired.
Just because she is replacing
Just because she is replacing someone who's job was a joke and a waste of money does not legitimatize her appointment. Absolute waste of money. For once I'm on the same page as Brett. Didn't she get caught not paying taxes?
As headmaster, Contompasis was no joke.
He was an old-school, intimidating presence. You didn't want to get sent to his office.
He should go back to that job- he was good at it.