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? 


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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.
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