Mayor White’s quest to oust Jordy Tollett from the position as president of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau took yet another turn on Friday, as the Chronicle‘s Kristen Mack reports:
The executive board of the Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau voted Friday to search for a possible replacement for bureau president Jordy Tollett.
Considerable pressure was applied on the board’s 28 members, who cast secret ballots when deciding whether to follow up on Mayor Bill White’s recommendation to enlist a national executive search firm to find candidates when Tollett’s contract expires next year.
The board also passed a unanimous measure asking Tollett to reapply for his job.
“We asked that Mr. Tollett participate in that search as a candidate we have a lot of faith in,” board President Doug Horn said. “Jordy has considered that position and will get back with us. He is taking it into advisement.”
Greater Houston Partnership CEO Jeff Moseley will head a search committee to be formed next week. It is expected to submit candidates in 60 to 90 days.
Tollett’s five-year contract is up in February.
Apparently all of Houston’s problems — skyrocketing violent crime, congestion, potholes, a bumbling police chief who spends much of his time in Phoenix — pale in comparison to that pressing problem of a Non-Friend-Of-Bill heading up the allegedly independent Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau.
ADDITIONAL COVERAGE: Houston Business Journal.
