Tt post aug 4, 2017

http://toledotalk.com/cgi-bin/tt.pl/article/213180/02Aug2017/Sarantou_Out

http://www.toledoblade.com/Politics/2017/08/04/Errors-cost-Toledo-chance-at-1-1M-grant-for-job-training-Administrator-demoted-to-water-department.html

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That's amazing. We joke about it, but unfortunately, it's not a joke in Toledo. I don't believe anything that the mayor said for this story. Sounds like lies to me. Who agrees to a drastic pay cut because the person is needed in another department?

Toledo’s onetime grant writer was demoted to the city’s water department with a substantial pay cut after a snafu that cost the city and the Lucas Metropolitan Housing Authority any chance of landing a $1.1 million grant to start a jobs training program.

... a former University of Toledo employee who was fired twice by the school ...

Her transfer to the Department of Public Utilities followed a series of blunders ...

Mayor Hicks-Hudson said Ms. Spurlock was moved because of “the need for stronger grant-writing skills” in the water department.

Spurlock was hired by Mayor Paula Hicks-Hudson in January, 2016, as the city’s grants administrator for $67,000 a year. Officials could not reveal the salary for her water department job Thursday. It will be $30,286 to $40,381, according to the city’s salary schedule.

The mayor said the loss of the $1.1 million grant had nothing to do with the transfer and salary cut.

[Last year] Mayor Hicks-Hudson asked ex-Toledo Neighborhoods Director Tom Kroma to resign for his role in the loss of a different grant that was half of that amount.

[The mayor] would not comment on Mr. Kroma’s forced resignation compared with Ms. Spurlock’s transfer and demotion.