Right after we learned (permanently no longer a councilwoman) Carol Alvarado had been hired by METRO as a consultant, Tom Bazan filed a TxPIA to find out all the details.
I don’t think he’s heard back from METRO yet (shocker!!!), but Matt Stiles got a response to his TxPIA request:
Turns out the deal, a copy of which I just obtained under the Texas Public Information Act today, specifically excludes Alvarado from representing METRO before city officials, including Mayor White and City Council members. By the way, the contract is dated five days after Alvarado left the city.
But the agency can ask her for help with various other local agencies, including the Houston-Galveston Area Council and the Gulf Coast Freight Rail District.
The terms? They pay $150 an hour, with a maximum of 600 hours per year. So far she’s been paid about $6,000, METRO officials say.
So while Carol was boo-hooing that the city was going to be deprived of her greatness, she was already working on a nice gig with METRO.
As one commenter to Stiles’ post noted:
CA has never had a real job her entire adult life. Why should she start now?
She’s just serving the public, making sure the Houston area doesn’t get shortchanged by losing her talents.
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