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Street Supporter Lands $140-Per-Hour School District Job
Former Campaign Manager To Head Community Outreach
UPDATED: 10:10 AM EST March 8, 2004
PHILADELPHIA -- A campaign consultant for Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street has landed a $715,000 contract with the school district.
Lana Felton-Ghee, who has been subpoenaed in the federal probe of alleged corruption in Street's administration, was hired to manage community outreach and minority business inclusion for the school district's capital campaign.
She will make about
#036;140 an hour for the approximately 5,100 hours in the contract, a school district spokeswoman said.
Felton-Ghee, who managed Street's 1999 campaign, has gotten more than $800,000 in cons
ult
ing work from Street's campaign since 2000 and more than $200,000 in
city business.
"I've never gone to John Street to ask for anything," Felton-Ghee said, answering critics. "I know the community and I'm respected here."
But some say it shouldn't take $700,000 for the school district to do community outreach.
"(The money) could buy counselors, mental health services, a lot of things our kids need," said Shelly Yanoff, who directs Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth.
Street Supporter Lands $140-Per-Hour School District Job
Former Campaign Manager To Head Community Outreach
UPDATED: 10:10 AM EST March 8, 2004
PHILADELPHIA -- A campaign consultant for Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street has landed a $715,000 contract with the school district.
Lana Felton-Ghee, who has been subpoenaed in the federal probe of alleged corruption in Street's administration, was hired to manage community outreach and minority business inclusion for the school district's capital campaign.
She will make about
#036;140 an hour for the approximately 5,100 hours in the contract, a school district spokeswoman said.
Felton-Ghee, who managed Street's 1999 campaign, has gotten more than $800,000 in cons
ult
ing work from Street's campaign since 2000 and more than $200,000 in
city business.
"I've never gone to John Street to ask for anything," Felton-Ghee said, answering critics. "I know the community and I'm respected here."
But some say it shouldn't take $700,000 for the school district to do community outreach.
"(The money) could buy counselors, mental health services, a lot of things our kids need," said Shelly Yanoff, who directs Philadelphia Citizens for Children and Youth.