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More from Other NewsThe Ventura County Transportation Commission is set to vote on whether to hire a director of freeway construction in San Bernardino as its executive director.
Darren Kettle, 41, would replace retiring executive director Ginger Gherardi, who has headed up VCTC since it was formed in 1989. If the hire is approved by the commission at a meeting Friday, Kettle would begin in early October. His salary would be about $200,000 a year, about $20,000 more than Gehardi's salary.
The VCTC has a budget of about $80 million, overseeing money used for local highway construction, as well as bus and rail lines in the county.
Kettle, director of freeway construction for the San Bernardino Associated Governments, was one of at least six candidates interviewed for the job. His co-worker at SANBAG, Deborah Robinson Barmack, was also a finalist but dropped out in the summer to take the executive director position for the San Bernardino agency, which has a budget of about $420 million.
Posted by chair on September 10, 2007 at 3:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Where do they come up with these salaries? $80-mil is chump change government- and business-wise. But I'll let him keep it IF he can actually create a realistic intra-county bus system for Ventura County. The money, after all, would pay for only 20 freeway miles, if that.
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