Posted on 01/08/2009 2:03:09 PM PST by maggief
Governor Rod Blagojevich may have another appointment to make in the near future.
Patricia Young resigned her seat on the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District’s Board of Commissioners to return to her former position in the public affairs division of the district.
Under Illinois law, the governor appoints a replacement.
Young submitted her resignation on Jan. 2, according to Board President Terry O’ Brien.
(Excerpt) Read more at chitowndailynews.org ...
Another Appointment?
Just one week after igniting a firestorm with his appointment of Roland Burris to the U.S. Senate, Gov. Rod Blagojevich could be preparing to make another appointment. This time, it's for a job right in downtown Chicago, at the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District.
Commissioner Patricia Young quietly submitted her resignation last week, and her $50,000-a-year position officially became open on Monday.
A spokesman for the water reclamation district confirmed the governor has the sole authority to replace her, and he could do so at any time.
What did she do?
Link to Chi Town Daily News:
Better yet, whose got the goods on her?
Yep — What did she do, and when did she do it.
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Just what does the MWRD do? Sounds like a make work do nothing job rewarding Dem operatives
Of big claims, insiders and a sludge plant - How the Chicago sanitary district bought into a company’s dubious track recordFrom Seattle to Stickney
http://www.chicagotribune.com/services/newspaper/printedition/thursday/chi-black_boxsep20,0,7097866.story
Chicago Tribune (IL) - Thursday, September 20, 2007
Author: David Jackson, Tribune staff reporter
Eight stories tall and sheathed in corrugated steel, the windowless tower juts above the umber lagoons of the world’s largest sewage treatment plant, in west suburban Stickney.
Its outer walls are painted white, but Chicago sanitary district officials use a dark nickname for this structure.
They call it “the Black Box.”
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Finally, at a November 2000 district board meeting, Commissioner Patricia Young asked McMillan why Lynam’s Seattle plant was shuttered. “Can you explain what happened with that operation, why it failed?”
“It did not fail,” McMillan said. “We have representations from the owners of that facility — I’m talking about the municipal agency — that it did not fail to meet the contract requirements.”
“So why is it not operating anymore?”
“Union disputes.”
“Union disputes?”
“That’s correct,” McMillan said.
A month later, at a December 2000 board meeting, Young offered a motion that the district adopt revolving-door hiring restrictions like those enforced by the City of Chicago and Cook County.
Again, McMillan shut her down. No commissioner seconded Young’s motion, so it failed.
Days later, with Young as the lone dissenting vote, commissioners authorized the district to award Lynam’s company the Black Box contract.
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