HUD denies housing post to Polanski
HUD denies housing post to Polanski
Well-paying haven for departing Lackawanna mayors won't be this time, at least till '13
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Updated: December 30, 2011, 10:19 AM
The Lackawanna Municipal Housing Authority has been a soft landing spot for previous departing Lackawanna mayors.
But that won't be the case with current Mayor Norman L. Polanski Jr. -- at least until 2013.
The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development has denied a request that would have allowed the LMHA to hire Polanski as the authority's executive director at the completion of his term as mayor.
The authority's board of commissioners asked HUD in October to waive a required one-year waiting period for the mayor to be considered for the director's post, which has an $82,000 annual salary.
But HUD's Buffalo office decided last week to deny the request, determining that the board had failed to make the case that Polanski was the only person qualified for the job.
"They did not present enough justification for why Polanski would be the best person to become [executive director] of the agency," said Joan K. Spilman, Buffalo field office director for HUD.
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I can't stop chuckling over this one!
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Originally Posted by
bluethunder
Regardless of who the tenants want they really do not have a say in who gets the job. The job is filled by the authority's Board of Directors all mostly appointed by Polanski. The tenants petitioned HUD to not waive the 1 year requirement for elected officials and HUD complied with their wishes but after the 1 year wait passes he will be right back into play! Maybe they should petiton HUD to make it a 5 year rule instead? This way it benifits the City of Lackawanna and other municipalities from overzealous political hacks who think they are entitiled to everything!
Need a good laugh? The LA City Grapevine hasn't stopped wiping their eyes yet:
They painted the office and had already bought him a new desk for his grand entrance on 01-02-2012 at LMHA too!
And was prancing around in "HIS" new office at the Lackawanna Municipal Housing Authorities annual XMAS party recently.
P.S. There was NOTHING wrong with the practically new desk they replaced for him. He probably just did not want to sit where the ED who would not patronize him sat.:witless: