The Board of Estimates – including Leach herself, filling in for Mayor Scott – approved the spending as part of a larger contract awarded to a small D.C. consulting firm
Upper management tune-ups don’t come cheap in Baltimore government. This morning the Board of Estimates committed $18,000 so that its Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) Faith Leach can hone her leadership skills through one-on-one executive coaching sessions with a former boss.
That expenditure for ten monthly sessions – at a rate of $1,800 per hour – was part of a larger $125,000 contract approved by the board without comment…