We noted last week that eyebrows were raised when Richard Vacar hastily retired as head of the Houston Airport system. Today, the Chron’s Bradley Olson has more, and it appears the non-profit agency Vacar created could have been the problem:
The genesis of the Houston Airport System Development Corp. came in 2000, when City Council authorized the city aviation department to assist a company making a bid to manage 13 airports in Mexico. Under the “technical services” agreement, the city would be reimbursed for the time aviation employees spent on international development at a rate of 1.8 times the actual costs, plus expenses.
The idea behind the development corporation was that money eventually would flow into city coffers, and airport employees would add cosmopolitan
