In a surprise that should come as no surprise, Greensboro Housing Authority pays director Tina Akers Brown $242,000—-far site better than City Manager Denise Turner Roth, even with her $5k salary hike:
Mayor-elect Nancy Vaughan, who’s slated to make three board appointments during her coming two-year term, said Brown’s salary surprised her, but she isn’t in a position to say whether it’s too high.
“That the head of the Greensboro Housing Authority makes more than the city manager … I was somewhat taken aback,” Vaughan said.
But it’s still less than Greensboro Coliseum director Matt Brown, and probably always will be, whether you’re housing authority director, the city manager, the police chief…
Indeed Tina Brown never showed up on Greensboro’s salary list. It’s not really an apples to apples comparison if the federal government is paying her salary. Brown’s just playing by the rules as they’re written—-therefore the problem.
Bonus question: Charlotte Observer reports:
After reports of high pay for public housing directors in other cities, Congress voted in 2012 to limit the federal government’s share for a director’s salary to no more than $155,500.
..The cap did not result in pay reductions for Beam and Akers Brown. With little evidence of a public discussion in their board minutes, the boards pulled money out of funds not controlled by HUD to keep the pay up.
Help me out here but the cap wouldn’t kick in the same year it was passed, right? But if it kicked in, it’s not hard to believe the housing authority would magically find the money to keep its director in place. But I you have to wonder where the funds “not controlled by HUD” come from.
