Metro gives CEO Wilson undisclosed raise
This is what quasi-governmental agencies with unelected officials do:
The Metropolitan Transit Authority board voted Thursday to give President and CEO Frank Wilson a raise. But they wouldn't say how much.
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After the meeting, Wolff was asked why Metro would not reveal a matter of public record.
"I have to work out the final details with him," Wolff said. "The board authorized me to do that."
Asked whether a second vote will be held after the details are worked out, Wolff said it would not.
"It's pretty much done, but I can't give you the full details now," he said. "I will as soon as we have it."
Wolff noted that Wilson had been with Metro two years and did not receive a raise after his first year.
Before the vote, Wolff praised Wilson's "businesslike approach," noting among his accomplishments the cutting of unproductive routes in favor of better-used ones and his supervision of Metro's ambitious plans for light rail and transitway expansion.
Wilson earns $254,000 a year.
After the meeting, the Houston Chronicle filed a Texas open records request for details of Wilson's raise.
Do you think the Metro board talked with Terrence Wilson about Frank J. Wilson's "businesslike approach" to "cutting unproductive routes"?
Then there's Terrence Wilson, who was paralyzed from the waist down in a motorcycle accident 24 years ago. Wilson, 49, depends on Metro buses and his motorized wheelchair to get around.
Because many streets in his Acres Homes neighborhood lack sidewalks, Metro built a concrete slab on the shoulder for his wheelchair, he said. But over the years, his regular bus was replaced with a circulating shuttle, and then Metro shortened that route. It no longer passes his home, and Wilson said he now rides his chair in the street for a risky 1 1/2 miles to reach the bus stop.
All for the sake of world-class trains.
Thanks to the Chronicle's Rad Sallee for his perseverance.
Posted by Anne Linehan @ 07/24/06 05:55 AM | Houston Transit | Technorati | Sphere | Comments (9)
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