July 6
MARTA board member gets probation for sex charge
Fired Grady CEO settles suit for ‘less than a year’s pay’
Former Grady Memorial Hospital CEO Otis Story has settled a lawsuit over his 2008 firing. Story will receive “less than a year’s pay,” as well as a bonus and moving expenses that were included in his employment contract but never paid, Grady general counsel Timothy Jefferson said. No total was disclosed, but “it won’t be an earth-shattering amount,” Jefferson said.
Don McChesney, Atlanta Boy Scout executive: $278,808
Top executive of the Atlanta Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America; 2007 salary & benefits.
Senate Rules chairman collects $85K with no opposition
Everyone wants to be your friend when you’re chairman of the Senate Rules Committee. Just ask Don Balfour. The Snellville Republican’s campaign fund has collected nearly $85,000 since Jan. 1, for a total of $683,000 since January 2006. No one’s even run against him in that period. The Rules Committee places bills on the Legislature’s calendar, unless it chooses not to — which means the Senate will never, ever vote on your bill. That’s why Don has so many friends.