Macrina's water confirmation held up by Atlanta council
Atlanta’s new commissioner of the Department of Watershed Management, Jo Ann Macrina, is on the job – kinda.
On Tuesday, the city’s utilities committee, held up her confirmation because some members of the council want to meet her before rubber-stamping her new job.
Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed announced in early April that Macrina, who held similar watershed positions in DeKalb County, would be hired to run Atlanta’s massive program, which is concurrently dealing with customer complaints and following a federal consent decree.
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Ernie Suggs is an enterprise reporter covering race and culture for the AJC since 1997. A 1990 graduate of N.C. Central University and a 2009 Harvard University Nieman Fellow, he is also the former vice president of the National Association of Black Journalists. His obsession with Prince, Spike Lee movies, Hamilton and the New York Yankees is odd.
