by KYW's Mike Dunn
There was a slap on the wrist Thursday for the former head of Mayor Street’s “Wireless Philadelphia” project, who took a job with a company to whom she had awarded $300,000 in contracts.
The mayor’s own ethics board investigated the departure last month of chief information officer Dianah Neff (above), who left to take a position with a Georgia firm called Civitium. That company received two contracts from Wireless Philadelphia totaling $300,000.
The ethics board found no violations of law because the contracts had expired by the time she left. But executive director Shane Creamer says Neff should have first consulted the ethics board:
“It did create an appearance that there may have been a violation. And it was that appearance problem that led us to conclude that a better practice would have been for her to have come to us sooner for advice.”
Neff, in a written response, calls the board’s findings unfair, since there is no requirement that she first consult them before such a job change.
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