A readjustment for Phila.'s ex-offenders program

[Red October]

A readjustment for Phila.'s ex-offenders program
By Marcia Gelbart
Inquirer Staff Writer

[excerpt]

Mayor Nutter has made a priority of trying to persuade Philadelphia's business leaders to hire ex-convicts as part of his plan to make the city safer.
 
Now, having done so himself, the mayor has discovered there can be pitfalls.

Six months after appointing an ex-inmate and former drug addict with a record for aggravated assault to lead a city office devoted to finding jobs for other ex-offenders, Nutter quietly demoted him.

During his brief tenure as director of the Mayor's Office for the Reentry of Ex-offenders, Ronald L. Cuie nearly doubled his staff and overspent his budget to the point where the city has had to cancel a contract with a firm hired to find jobs for ex-inmates.

Last month, Cuie, 54, was reassigned to another position in the same office, at the same $87,500-a-year salary, but with no supervisory duties.

Asked last week about the decision to terminate the high-profile appointment, Nutter said little.

"Needs and strategies change and evolve over time, and you utilize your personnel as best you see fit," he said.

http://www.philly.com/philly/hp/news_update/20080915_A_readjustment_for_Phila__s_ex-offenders_program.html

  And these are the sorts of douchebags that have so much to say about Sarah Palin's governing skills.

[Flame]

at the same $87,500-a-year salary,

damn, must be nice!

[JohnnyReb]

at the same $87,500-a-year salary,

damn, must be nice!

Yeah....who you gotta shoot to get a do nothing $85,500-a-year gummint job?

...with paid vacation, sick days and benefits.