The Austin Transit Partnership — a voter-created organization collecting almost $160 million a year in property tax to build light-rail — has chosen a permanent leader to oversee the single largest expansion of public transit in the city's history.
But the way Canally was elevated to the permanent post has raised concerns with community advocates, advisory boards and close watchers of the transit expansion. The ATP board chair even apologized for how the appointment was initially communicated.
In November, ATP told KUT it intended to restart the search for a headhunter,"as is considered industry best practice." Former Huston-Tillotson president and CEO Colette Pierce Burnette left the ATP board in May. Her replacement, Juan Garza, wasn't appointed till November. By then, Austin had a new mayor and a board seat for Steve Adler would soon transfer to Kirk Watson.
In their secluded discussion, Affion Public presented the board with two options: perform a full national search for a new executive director or name interim director Greg Canally sole candidate for the job. The board emerged from its closed-door session an hour and a half later to a largely empty board room. The meeting was, however,"I'm proud to announce that we have identified our finalist for executive director, Mr. Greg Canally," Castro de Barrera said. The five board members present voted unanimously to name Canally the sole finalist for the job.
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