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Greenway Funding Lacking; Not Nonprofit's Salaries
Parts Of Project Remain Undeveloped
POSTED: 5:14 pm EDT July 22, 2010
The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a beautiful compliment to busy Quincy Market and Boston's packed North End, but parts of it remain undeveloped because of lack of funding.
Children enjoy a carousel ride, while grownups search for the perfect veggie at the farmer's market, but a plan to create an urban nursery is on hold.
Private donations are down, and the state has cut funding to $2.2 million from $3 million last year.
"It will be a very tight year," Greenway Conservancy Executive Director Nancy Brennan said.
Team 5 asked Brennan, who makes $200,000, how tight her budget really is. A review of the conservancy's most recent tax filing shows the nonprofit spent $550,000 on consultants.
"The consultant figure is made up of a variety of smaller contracts. One of the things we have been careful about is not to hire too many full time staff," Brennan said.
But, among the full-time staff is a director of park operations who makes $131,000 compared to his state counterparts who make a little more than half that salary.
"Our head of park operations has a deep background in engineering, which is what you would want him to have to be on top this tunnel," Brennan said.
"I think our colleagues at DCR are pretty highly skilled," Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Mullan said.
The state is responsible for half the maintenance costs along the Greenway and will only reimburse at the rate a state worker gets paid.
"The way we chose to address it was to cap it there and let the conservancy fund the balance of that salary," Mullan said.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/investigative/24357955/detail.html
Greenway Funding Lacking; Not Nonprofit's Salaries
Parts Of Project Remain Undeveloped
POSTED: 5:14 pm EDT July 22, 2010
The Rose Kennedy Greenway is a beautiful compliment to busy Quincy Market and Boston's packed North End, but parts of it remain undeveloped because of lack of funding.
Children enjoy a carousel ride, while grownups search for the perfect veggie at the farmer's market, but a plan to create an urban nursery is on hold.
Private donations are down, and the state has cut funding to $2.2 million from $3 million last year.
"It will be a very tight year," Greenway Conservancy Executive Director Nancy Brennan said.
Team 5 asked Brennan, who makes $200,000, how tight her budget really is. A review of the conservancy's most recent tax filing shows the nonprofit spent $550,000 on consultants.
"The consultant figure is made up of a variety of smaller contracts. One of the things we have been careful about is not to hire too many full time staff," Brennan said.
But, among the full-time staff is a director of park operations who makes $131,000 compared to his state counterparts who make a little more than half that salary.
"Our head of park operations has a deep background in engineering, which is what you would want him to have to be on top this tunnel," Brennan said.
"I think our colleagues at DCR are pretty highly skilled," Transportation Secretary Jeffrey Mullan said.
The state is responsible for half the maintenance costs along the Greenway and will only reimburse at the rate a state worker gets paid.
"The way we chose to address it was to cap it there and let the conservancy fund the balance of that salary," Mullan said.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/investigative/24357955/detail.html
