Why hasn't the Tribune exposed the deleterious impacts that the housing authority has had on the community while staff and board members enjoy luxuries paid for by the taxpayers? At a minimum, the Tribune should be annually publishing or providing a data base link of all public salaries (and I mean all). But this is how government works (doesn't); constituencies become entrenched, do whatever is deemed necessary to preserve themselves and turn "public service" positions into sinecures. So, nothing in the article is surprising since no real public review of this agency (which does not even have a website) has ever occurred.
By the way, where does Mr. Kanuch live? I doubt that it is in the City of Johnstown, where he and his high-paid cohorts have further devastated declining neighborhoods (while the City council and administration sits by and watches) through the recruitment and general Section Eight (8) policies of the Johnstown Housing Authority. He would never subject himself and his family to what he has subjected the remaining families of Johnstown.
No one heading a public service agency in this small town or small region should be making anywhere near $118,000. Actually, the housing agency, arguably, should have ceased to exist decades ago. However, when the media is complicit, due to lack of reporting, investigating and questioning, the disease of sinecurism can not be cured.
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