Beverly Scott, General Manager of the Sacramento Regional Transit Authority since 2002, seems all but certain to be confirmed as head of the larger Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority. Scott makes $171,684 as RT head, but the job in Atlanta has a base salary of more than $250,000.

Ms. Scott won kudos during her time in Sacramento - for winning extra Federal funding, working to build a collaborative regional agency, overseeing the growth of the light rail system to Meadowview and Folsom and making transnit more user-friendly. Recently, she has been pushing to place a measure on the 2012 ballot to authorize a new half cent sales tax and dealing with a downturn in ridership.

While a more than $80K salary increase is worth a move, I wonder how frustrated she was that many of her ideas fell on deaf ears. This is a question the search committee will have to explain when they go looking for replacement candidates - why exactly did she leave?

Too bad she is going - she would have been a great speaker for a SacWomen's event! Luckily we still have a few more strong women in town we can tap!

Gillian Parrillo
The Sacramento Executive