More shenanigans at S&WB - Mitch's people all up in it

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Two more upper-level Sewerage & Water Board employees attained their positions via "unauthorized" hiring, according to the city's Civil Service Department. Those two employees - as well as a third who Civil Service said has held an "unauthorized" project manager job for months - have been given until March 2 to leave their posts.

In a report released Monday (Feb. 19), Civil Service staff found that the Sewerage & Water Board's intergovernmental relations manager, Hayne Rainey, and its press secretary, Zachary Hudson, were both hired to "unauthorized" positions. That report follows a prior Civil Service report that said Muhammed Owusu, a construction project manager who has instead worked in human resources, also was improperly hired.

Rainey is Mayor Mitch Landrieu's former press secretary and was appointed as a "S&WB Senior Project Manager" in November 2016 with a $90,000 annual salary, Monday's report said. That position does not technically exist, the report contends, while a similarly titled position of "Unclassified S&WB Senior Project Manager" entails a job description that Civil Service staff believe Rainey has not been performing.

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