Former MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott speaks with a well-wisher during her going away party, Wednesday, April 08, 2015. Staff photo by Angela Rowlings.
The embattled former head of the MBTA, ousted after the transit system suffered a complete collapse last winter, is up for a plum federal transportation job.
President Obama announced Tuesday that he is nominating former MBTA chief Beverly Scott as a member on the National Transportation Safety Board. Board members are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate for five-year terms, according to agency.
Board members, who pull in annual salaries of about $155,000, attend NTSB board meetings, review and approve agency reports, safety studies and safety recommendations.
Scott left the T on April 11, but announced her resignation Feb. 11 under mounting public criticism as a string of snowstorms paralyzed the transit system.
Herald reports have revealed that Scott traveled across the country at taxpayer expense nearly every month during her two-plus-year tenure — sometimes several times a month — to conferences and meetings. She spent a total of 106 days traveling out of state during her tenure, taking 30 trips in 24 months, racking up $56,753 in expenses on lodging, airplane tickets and dining tabs, including at least $1,132 on hotel laundry and dry-cleaning bills.
Scott also went on a hiring and spending spree at the cash-strapped agency over the past year, nearly doubling the number of staffers with six-figure salaries. The 1,952 MBTA employees paid at least $100,000 represented a steep spike from 985 six-figure earners in 2013 and 711 in 2012.
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