The Baton Rouge airport needed a highly qualified new director to ensure the civic and economic development missions of this crucial community asset are met, says Business Report Publisher Rolfe McCollister.
“Instead, we’ve gotten lots of politics from a dysfunctional Metro Council,” McCollister writes in his latest column.
As quoted in The Advocate, Mayor Pro Tem Scott Wilson said, “This search has been a disaster. I don’t want this to keep going on. We’re spinning our tires and not getting anywhere.” McCollister says Wilson also implied that few good candidates would apply if the committee continued the search for another 30 days because they had seen the difficult process so far.
“So, Scott, what do you say we just put it in ‘park’ and give up on finding the top talent to run our airport? The truth is our Metro Council is the disaster,” McCollister writes, adding that the last candidate of the three previous finalists withdrew his name and said the process had become a “political nightmare.”
Read the full column, in which McCollister dives into the politics of the airport director search and how it shows a lack of local leadership.
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