New CFO, Finance Director on Tap
Monday's City Council agenda is posted here on the city's web site and Council President Rashid Burney has scanned in all the resolutions and ordinances here. If the council agrees, all items will be up for approval at the July 20 regular meeting. You can pore over them yourself, but meanwhile here are some highlights:
- The name of Bibi Taylor is offered to fill the vacant position of Director of Administration, Finance, Health and Social Services. A Google search was very interesting but not relevant to the candidate. We will have to wait to hear her qualifications. The department is one of three mandated in the city's special charter but has been vacant since December. Since 2006, Norton Bonaparte, A. Raiford Daniels and Douglas Peck have served stints in the office and during vacancies former City Administrator Carlton McGee and current City Administrator Marc Dashield filled in. Dashield has been doing both jobs since December, over the 90-day limit for acting positions. Daniels and Peck both left midway through budget deliberations, complicating matters for Dashield and the governing body. If hired to the statutory post, Taylor will be on hand just in time for the new 2010 fiscal year.
- James Mangin is the nominee for the post of chief financial officer, which was last held permanently by Peter Sepelya until his retirement at the end of 2007. This is another statutory position with important duties. Click here for a state description of the job. The city has gotten by with temporary or acting CFOs since Sepelya left.
- The title of "Manager I Information Processing, Level 1" is to be created by ordinance. A salary range of $70,000 to $110,000 is proposed. The administration previously offered another title, but upon review of state Department of Personnel titles the current one was chosen. The question of establishing an IT department and hiring someone to run it was not resolved in the FY 2009 budget process, but it remains a high priority as the administration seeks to combine or collapse communications and IT functions into one entity. Last week, Dashield told the Cable Television Advisory Board that neither a consultant nor a person who currently tapes events and meetings is able to take on a "supervisual" (supervisory?) role. At Monday's meeting, Dashield is expected to make a presentation and to give updated specifications on information technology.
- Speaking of the television consultant, the council will be asked to approve a contract for up to $50,000 for Blok Box Pictures LLC, whose principal, Parris Z. Moore, has served previously in that role. Moore developed new segments for the city's local Channel 74. Other items in the scope of work include editing, filling out logs, getting talent release forms, scheduling, managing archival materials and many other duties. In May, Blok Box received a contract retroactive to July 1, 2008 and ending June 30.
- A $5,985,000 bond ordinance for road improvements will be up for second reading and final passage at the July 20 meeting.
The meeting is 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library. The mayor has called a special meeting for 8 p.m. on the subject of a $15 million Neighborhood Stabilization Program which could result in 180 new apartments downtown. Click here to read Burney's blog post on the topic. This matter has come up very fast. It reminds this writer of the hustles in 2006 to get major development proposals shoved through the process. There may be issues of timeliness in this new opportunity, but let us hope there are adequate questions and answers Monday to achieve transparency. The development area is on the PNC Bank and Appliance-Arama block and the developer is Landmark Developers. Click here to read more and be sure to look under "Development" to read about the North Avenue plan that Landmark agreed to in 2006.
--Bernice Paglia
- The name of Bibi Taylor is offered to fill the vacant position of Director of Administration, Finance, Health and Social Services. A Google search was very interesting but not relevant to the candidate. We will have to wait to hear her qualifications. The department is one of three mandated in the city's special charter but has been vacant since December. Since 2006, Norton Bonaparte, A. Raiford Daniels and Douglas Peck have served stints in the office and during vacancies former City Administrator Carlton McGee and current City Administrator Marc Dashield filled in. Dashield has been doing both jobs since December, over the 90-day limit for acting positions. Daniels and Peck both left midway through budget deliberations, complicating matters for Dashield and the governing body. If hired to the statutory post, Taylor will be on hand just in time for the new 2010 fiscal year.
- James Mangin is the nominee for the post of chief financial officer, which was last held permanently by Peter Sepelya until his retirement at the end of 2007. This is another statutory position with important duties. Click here for a state description of the job. The city has gotten by with temporary or acting CFOs since Sepelya left.
- The title of "Manager I Information Processing, Level 1" is to be created by ordinance. A salary range of $70,000 to $110,000 is proposed. The administration previously offered another title, but upon review of state Department of Personnel titles the current one was chosen. The question of establishing an IT department and hiring someone to run it was not resolved in the FY 2009 budget process, but it remains a high priority as the administration seeks to combine or collapse communications and IT functions into one entity. Last week, Dashield told the Cable Television Advisory Board that neither a consultant nor a person who currently tapes events and meetings is able to take on a "supervisual" (supervisory?) role. At Monday's meeting, Dashield is expected to make a presentation and to give updated specifications on information technology.
- Speaking of the television consultant, the council will be asked to approve a contract for up to $50,000 for Blok Box Pictures LLC, whose principal, Parris Z. Moore, has served previously in that role. Moore developed new segments for the city's local Channel 74. Other items in the scope of work include editing, filling out logs, getting talent release forms, scheduling, managing archival materials and many other duties. In May, Blok Box received a contract retroactive to July 1, 2008 and ending June 30.
- A $5,985,000 bond ordinance for road improvements will be up for second reading and final passage at the July 20 meeting.
The meeting is 7:30 p.m. in City Hall Library. The mayor has called a special meeting for 8 p.m. on the subject of a $15 million Neighborhood Stabilization Program which could result in 180 new apartments downtown. Click here to read Burney's blog post on the topic. This matter has come up very fast. It reminds this writer of the hustles in 2006 to get major development proposals shoved through the process. There may be issues of timeliness in this new opportunity, but let us hope there are adequate questions and answers Monday to achieve transparency. The development area is on the PNC Bank and Appliance-Arama block and the developer is Landmark Developers. Click here to read more and be sure to look under "Development" to read about the North Avenue plan that Landmark agreed to in 2006.
--Bernice Paglia
posted by Bernice at 3:40 PM
4 Comments:
Check in East Orange, Bernice. There's a Bibi Taylor listed as being on the school board, and someone named Bibi Stewart Garvin used to be Business Administrator there. Don't know if they're the same person, but the name "Bibi" is not a common one. Along the way, you may find some other interesting names. Maybe you can use your excellent reportorial skills to find out more? I hope so.
R U sure it is pore over ??
GB
To Anonymous regarding Bibi Taylor/Bibi Stewart Garvin: Good sleuthing, but I am withholding your comments at this time until I can verify the identity.
I can ensure that they are one in the same person. She has re-married Taylor and divorced Garvin.
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