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re: NOLA S&WB Board gets glowing evaluation, 30K raise
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:52 pm to tgrbaitn08
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:52 pm to tgrbaitn08
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This small article about S&WB Executive Director Ghassan Korban's 8.8% raise. On top of his $271,666 annual salary, that works out to just over $23,900.
There are over 60 S&WB employees whose annual salary is less than Korban's raise. Also, he led an organization whose performance last year included ten boil water advisories, overtopping of a drainage canal because the canal was - and remains - clogged with over 20,000 tons of debris, multiple rain events with over 20 pump outages each (most of which went unreported in state-mandated reports), and at year's end, the destruction by explosion of a 20 megawatt turbine-generator followed by a month of silence on exactly what is being done to make up the shortfall before the rains come in the spring.
Leadership!
People like this are why this guy will say frick it and leave only to be replaced by someone that will just accept the status quo.
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Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:54 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Limiting the investigation also insulates top SWB leadership - including Korban and the Board - from being fingered as a root cause.
Would be surprising if they root caused to an individual on the board. Worst case they finger deferred maintenance.
Could be they were running it improperly due to lack of working equipment.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:58 pm to Saskwatch
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Why not? You can be bad at it and be handed a nice paycheck.
Dont forget that one of the most incompetent recent leaders of this organization was given salary for life to go away. Seems like a cush gig.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 2:59 pm to tgrbaitn08
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they don't have enough money to pay for a root cause analysis
I've got a SCAT chart they can borrow.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 3:04 pm to offshoreangler
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I've got a SCAT chart they can borrow
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Blame the lowest paid
Posted on 1/28/20 at 3:12 pm to LSUFanHouston
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But a 30K pay raise? What? How tone deaf are these clowns? This is an agency that still is having billing issues and has a backlog of work.
The S&WB has been justifiably ridiculed for their ineptitude for as long as I can remember. They finally hire someone who is outperforming expectations to the point of getting an unanimous vote of approval from the board and you are going to complain about him getting a $30k raise?
Are you suggesting the raise is too much and you would rather bring in someone to take his position so the city can save $30k? The cost of the projects he and his team execute are orders of magnitude more valuable than $30k a year. If he can resolve, or even significantly improve, the problems we deal with as a city than $30k a year means absolutely nothing.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 3:21 pm to PokerPlayingTiger
If you want someone competent to run your business you have to pay them. I am not sure what type of person S&WB could hire for 200k to do that job and try to put out the dumpster fire raging over there.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 3:24 pm to fightin tigers
I’ve heard from a few people that this guy is top notch, but obviously most of the people working there below him are morons.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 3:32 pm to saderade
If he has lowered expenses and increased revenue that is a pretty big step.
shite won't be solved over night.
Only question is how much do you trust the boards opinion on the matter.
shite won't be solved over night.
Only question is how much do you trust the boards opinion on the matter.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 4:14 pm to PokerPlayingTiger
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The S&WB has been justifiably ridiculed for their ineptitude for as long as I can remember. They finally hire someone who is outperforming expectations to the point of getting an unanimous vote of approval from the board and you are going to complain about him getting a $30k raise?
I think he's done a great job. But I'm not sure if it's truly great, or if it's simply great by comparison to past leaders, and he is simply doing his job.
The article made it seem like he just got a raise, the end. If the article said he was being pursued by another company / city and they needed to give him a raise to keep him, then I can kind of understand that.
That big of a raise after one year is a lot, though.
I wonder how much comparable officials in cities the same size as NOLA get paid.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 4:17 pm to LSUFanHouston
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That big of a raise after one year is a lot, though.
If you are good at your job it really isn't.
Quick search, Miami Water and Sewer director made 277k last year.
This post was edited on 1/28/20 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 1/28/20 at 4:20 pm to Walking the Earth
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In fairness, being the first guy in 100 years to think about clearing out the drains was pretty sharp on his part.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 4:21 pm to fightin tigers
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If you are good at your job it really isn't.
Is his job really that hard? Seems like anyone in that position gets away with a lot.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 4:29 pm to tgrbaitn08
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Is his job really that hard? Seems like anyone in that position gets away with a lot
No idea what all his job entails or how he is graded. As I said earlier, I question the board members making the decision for a raise more than I do the director at this point.
Posted on 1/28/20 at 5:04 pm to HT713
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didn't they just have a sonic boom explosion at one of their locations less than 45 days ago? not saying it's his fault but the optics of this are pretty bad looking tbh
They knew about the problem with turbine #5, then did nothing about it until it eventually blew up, just how the S&WB is run.
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