Charlie Baker is incapable of leadership and this proves it!
Defending Luis Ramirez ?
Cutting PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION services to those who need it and now hiring Clowns who flunked elsewhere?
Outgoing rail CEO ruffled feathers, struggled with cost overruns
Posted: 08/19/2016 5:15 PM
HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - During Dan Grabauskas' tenure as CEO of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, the rail authority completed nine miles of the guideway, despite a year-long legal delay and massive cost overruns.
But what ultimately ended his tenure was his frayed relationships with the state Legislature and the City Council, which hold the purse strings to the project.
On Thursday, Grabauskas voluntarily resigned after more than four years at the helm, capping months of review of his performance by the HART board.
"This is a matter of us thinking, what is in the best interest of HART? What is the best interest of City and County of Honolulu and the project itself?" said HART Chairwoman Colleen Hanabusa.
Under a separation deal, Grabauskas will be paid for the next 60 days plus a year's salary, making his severance package worth $282,000.
His interim replacement, city Department of Transportation Service Director Mike Formby, will be paid $147,000. Formby resigned from HART's board to accept the position.
Hanabusa said Grabauskas is entitled to severance since he voluntarily resigned.
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| T search advisory board member unaware of Ramirez past stumbles |
One of the five members of the advisory committee that worked with Transportation Secretary Stephanie Pollack on the search that resulted in the hiring of Luis Ramirez as the MBTA’s new general manager says she was not aware of a lawsuit against him or that his former company had to restate financial statements, Meghna Chakrabarti and Kathleen McNerney of WBUR report.
Pollack herself is not commenting on the selection, which for the first time was hers alone to make: Past GM hirings have been at least quasi-public processes.
Monica Tibbits-Nutt, executive director of the 128 Business Council who also serves on the T’s Fiscal and Management Control Board, says the reports swirling around Ramirez since his selection have put him at a disadvantage as he prepares to start work Sept. 12. “For now, I’m going to give Ramirez the benefit of the doubt and be cautiously optimistic. I’m going to wait until we have all the facts,” she said.
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