In a March 2009 article in the Herald News, Fall River Office of Economic Development (FROED) (legally incorporated as Jobs for Fall River, Inc.) president, Alan Amaral was asked about Fiola's salary. Amaral said the board has a legal contract and he’d release it with Fiola’s permission. Amaral said it is at least $100,000 and “is commensurate with his abilities and experience.”
Amaral's answer is scummy because FROED is a non-profit and as a result, Ken Fiola's salary is public record.
Without further ado:
KEN FIOLA'S SALARY
2005 $156,699.00 plus an additional $6,262 in deferred payments
2006 $155,209.00 plus an additional $6,217 in deferred payments
2007 $162,257.00 plus an additional $6,429 in deferred payments
Ken Fiola's Taunton counterpart earns approximately $70,000. That is $100,000.00 less then Fiola. To add further insult, Taunton is actually doing well so their money is well spent on their economic development director.
www.guidestar.org is a free service (you just need to set up an account and password) that offers information on non-profits. FROED's IRS 990's are available on that site. The 990's indicate where FROED's money is spent, salaries, director information, and much more - check it out.
Excellent post Shamrock. This is exactly what is wrong with Fall River. People with their hands in the till while folks are suffering, while the economy tanks, while public servants are laid off. Time to renegotiate that contract, wouldn't you say?
ReplyDeletewhy would he renegotiate? He has a CONTRACT and the whole point is to protect him. Stick to planting flowers at our parks please and leave the serious stuff to those capable. Whether he is overpaid or not is irrelevant
ReplyDeleteYou didn't waste any time with those personal goals shamrock!
ReplyDeleteCharlotteDespard
Anon 11:55, thanks for putting me down. I hadn't had enough of that already by overly sensitive politicians and public officials. Yes, resign me to the flower beds while you BIG BOYS fix the system. Right on!
ReplyDeleteOh, and thanks for being a misogynist. There aren't enough of those around here. Keep up the good work!
wether he is over paid is absolutely the point. If he actually brought in 8000 jobs for fall river there might not be a discussion. What is his batting average?
ReplyDeleteObviously you are joking Anon 11:55...
ReplyDeleteHow is whether he is overpaid or underpaid irrelevant? I suppose it is true, that if he isn't doing the job, it doesn't matter at all. And Fiola is very much NOT doing the job. So perhaps you are right.
I don't quite understand your attack about planting flowers at the parks. But, it is likely just a red herring to hide the fact that you have no clue.
The BIG question here is what is Will going to do with Fiola.
ReplyDeleteFlanagan will do nothing with Fiola. Flanagan's handlers are all in nice and cozy with Fiola so don't expect anything to change there. On the other hand, the Long family supported Flanagan very strongly so you may see Jeff Santos out and Steve Long back as Community Development Director. At least he is more qualified than Santos.
ReplyDeleteOverpaid, you know how to spell it - F - I - O - L -A
This sure brings a different light to the 'hard time' article the paper wrote last May...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.heraldnews.com/lifestyle/x2085727662/Despite-economy-kids-going-all-out-for-the-prom
Cake anyone?
So who actually pays fiolas salary? Does he have a contract with the city? What is the talk abou quasi agency?
ReplyDeleteTaxpayers.
ReplyDeleteFunded by the state?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.southcoastdev.org/who_we_are/steering_committee.htm
SouthCoast Development Partnership steering committee
The SouthCoast Development Partnership was created in 1999 as a regional, business-led collaborative to promote the SouthCoast region of Massachusetts as the next wave in economic opportunity. With headquarters on the campus of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, the Partnership is affirmation that regionalism works both as a marketing approach and as a strategy for sustainable economic development.
SouthCoast Development Partnership Membership
Thomas F. Lyons, Co-Chair
President, BankFive
Peter Kavanaugh, Co-Chair
President, Kavanaugh Development
Dr. Jean MacCormack
Chancellor, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Mayor Scott W. Lang
New Bedford, Massachusetts
Mayor Robert Correia
Fall River, Massachusetts
Attorney Kenneth Fiola, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Fall River Office of Economic Development
Matthew Morrissey
Executive Director, New Bedford Economic Development Council
State Representative Michael Rodrigues
State Senator Mark C. W. Montigny
Thomas Davis
Executive Director, Greater New Bedford Industrial Foundation
Steven Karam
Greater Fall River Development Corporation
Robert Mellion
President, Fall River Area Chamber of Commerce
Roy Nascimento
President, New Bedford Area Chamber of Commerce
Scott Costa
Co-owner/Treasurer, Bufftree Building Company
Dennis Galvam
NSTAR
Lisa A. Hermenau
National Grid
Arthur Motta
Executive Director, Southeastern Massachusetts Convention & Visitors Bureau
Mark Reilly
Comcast
Lisa Lundy Kusinitz
Dominion Energy, Brayton Point
Michael Metzler
Consultant
Retired Hospital CEO
Ex Officio
Greg Bialecki
Secretary of Housing and Development
Martin Walsh
Executive Director
Mass Office of Business Development
Buddy Rocha
Regional Director, Mass Office of Business Development
Paul Vigeant
Assistant Chancellor for Economic Development
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
James Mathes
Executive Director, SouthCoast Mentoring Initiative for Learning Education & Service (SMILES)
Paul Burke
Insurit Agency Inc.
Ex Officio
State Representative Kevin Aguiar
State Representative Antonio Cabral
State Representative Stephen Canessa
State Representative Steven D’Amico
State Representative Patricia Haddad
State Representative Robert Koczera
State Senator Joan M. Menard
State Representative John F. Quinn
State Representative William Straus
State Representative David B. Sullivan
State Senator James Timilty
Staff
Jennifer J. Menard
Executive Director, SouthCoast Development Partnership
508-999-8412
jmenard@umassd.edu
They need to be held accountable and report what they are doing to bring jobs to the southcoast.
ReplyDeleteThis should be updated to the taxpayers and public information.
Very nice work Shamrock!
ReplyDeleteThis contract needs to be renegotiated. I am all for paying people what they are worth, God knows I demand to be paid what I am worth.
Ken Fiola is extremely overpaid.
I hope that our new mayor will ignore his merry band of handlers and do what is right for the city even if it is not popular with the old boys network.
Ken Fiola isn't worth the sweat on the collective hairy balls of Fall River. If he worked for free, he'd still be overpaid. What's his track record on job creation????
ReplyDelete....Exactly!
There in lies the problem WJ !! If they worked on a "sales commission" basis like private industry what would his annual salary be??
ReplyDeleteHow about a volunteer organization to find possible employers for fall river and a finders fee for successful referrals?
Strict guidelines, don't give away the farm with TIF agreements, make sure they hire fall river residents and offer training.
CharlotteDespard
Fiola's salary alone equals approximately 38% of the the total revenues for FROED, according to the IRS 990. Now, where is that contract between FR RDA (a Government entity?) and FROED?
ReplyDeleteWill Flangan stated multiple times that we can't expect change by returning the same people back to office.
ReplyDeleteI hope Flanagan keeps that in mind in his dealings with FROED. Let's look back at the past 20 years to review FROED's accomplishments.
Mayor Flanagan will have the opportunity to lead Fall River's economic development efforts in a new direction.
Looks like the same people are also on the WIB another quasi-agency.
ReplyDeleteKudo's Shamrock. This is just the kind of information that Kenny the cockroach didn't want out. Watch him scurry now that the light is on him.
ReplyDeleteAlan Amaral needs to explain why, in his mind. $160K+ is "commensurate with his abilities and experience." Otherwise, I don't want him entrusted in any of the public's funds.
Kenny cried (literally) when Mayor Mitchell tried to get rid of him and let him keep his job. Mayor Lambert (and Correia) understood the importance of $ (just check the campaign contributions during their terms) and Kenny survived yet again.
Will, it's you turn to do what's right.
supposedly he had a "contract" another one to look into.
ReplyDeleteFROED could hire at least 2 productive & effective people for that salary.
Yes, I heard that story of Kenny crying in Mayor Mitchell's office when Mitchell was going to fire Kenny. Mitchell told me personally and I quote..."the biggest mistake I made as Mayor, was not firing Fiola"...Fiola only gives CASH donations to all "Good Chance" candidates. Mike Plasski also wants him fired...IE: Time to work in the private sector.
ReplyDeleteFiola is a TOOL!!!!
ReplyDeleteUMass Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research has added two new members to its board. Lisa Strattan has been editor in chief of The Herald News since 2003.
ReplyDeleteCheck the relationship between this group, the Southeast Mass Deleopment Partnership and other groups and you'll see why the Sterile does NOTHING to investigate FROED.
Conflict of interest!!!! This paper has no trust in this community
I don't know what Will might do. He is very close to Lambert and Kenny and lambert were close friends!!
ReplyDeleteDear Shamrock:
ReplyDeleteI wish I had discovered the complete roster of names and interdependent familial relationships the infest this City and assocaited administrative underpinnings...Instead of the quote from Richard III "A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse", perhaps a similar quote should be in order for Fall River: "An honest politician, an honest politician, my City for an honest politician!"
I wonder how much of the $160K salary Kenny "No Tie" Fiola kicks back to local pols? Has to be alot because in every picture I've ever seen him in he lacks any kind of neckwear what-so-ever...Hey Kenny, got a permanent neck rash? Herpes sore that irritates easily? Christ, can't you even wear a lousy bolo tie? Someone give this idiot some trutle wax for his chrome dome! If he won't use his head for thinking, at least make sure it looks good!
its absurd that this position makes more than the CEO of fall river...????
ReplyDeleteI am basing my next vote for Mayor on what Will does with Kenny.
ReplyDeleteIsnt it disgusting how Herren carries The Bobfathers water?? Isnt it a conflict that Herren and the granddaughter Krysten are all over the city bars slobbering over one another??
ReplyDeleteThe Hurricane and The runaway bride Fall Rivers first couple..lol How much different in age anyone know??
ReplyDeleteWe have a Hurricane sighting. He posts here to try to get people talking about him and he thinks it creates interest in his show and draws traffic. What a pathetic cry for attention, what an attention whore. Everybody knows the truth by now, the Hurricane and WSAR are irrelevant, neutered, no balls, no power, nothing. If they had any juice at all then Bob Correia would still be mayor. Hate on the Herald News all you want and all of us do from time to time but they really are the only game in town.
ReplyDeleteIs Umass a non-profit I couldn't find you salary.
ReplyDeleteHuh? I know you are trying to be snarky, however, the best way to find someone that works at UMass would be to look at the state payroll link I have listed on the right side of the blog.
ReplyDeleteoh and "anon" 17:53: I would think you would want me exposing Fiola...guess I was wrong about you.
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ReplyDeleteshamrock you are a creep..how do you sleep at night?? i hope you get exposed and i believe you will,then i want you to look in the eye the people you have trashed over and over again..we will see how brave you are!!
ReplyDeleteWhy does Shamrock tossing out Fiola's salary make him a creep? The guy is overpaid, period.
ReplyDeleteIf your comment was written in regards to his recent altercation with his daughter up on HN rest easy, Shamrock went on the article blog with a thumbs down.
The fact that her parents courted the HN to cover her fab prom nite may have somthing to do with their call regarding posting the story.
Sorry, publicity goes both ways.
SHAMROCK WE WILL FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE AND THEN REST ASSURED WE WILL EXPOSE YOU FOR THE UNDER ACHIEVING FRAUD MUCKRAKER THAT YOU ARE..!! HE WHO LAUGHS LAST LAUGHS BEST!!!
ReplyDeleteDear no caps and ALL CAPS,
ReplyDeleteAs you may have noticed, this is public information. Why are you so pissed off by facts and information? Also, I posted this 3 months ago - why the sudden interest?
I believe FROED is ineffective. FROED does not advance the city in a beneficial direction. Prove me wrong. Prove me wrong. Cite to a FROED success.
If you want to target the underachieving you should start at Government Center, then you can walk right over to the Herald News, and from there a quick car ride to WSAR!
ReplyDeleteIf Shamrock is underachieving chances are he MUST work in one of those places!
WE WILL FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE..IT IS MY MISSION AND WHEN I DO I WILL EXPOSE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY .LETS SEE HOW YOU HANDLE IT!
ReplyDeletePlease know that I am not intimidated by your threat. You are very emotional over something that is public record.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on your "mission," although there are a few more noble causes out there than "exposing" my family. I will start you off on your investigation: no one in my family is sucking off the teet of Fall River, none of them have been arrested, none of them have jobs as a result of nepotism, and they are all private figures entitled to a higher level of privacy and defamation protection.
Shamrock, Dear,
ReplyDeleteThat angry Anonymous with the big letters and the small brain sounds like he needs to go sit in the time-out chair for a very, very long time. But if he's really going to expose us do you think I should get my hair done? Maybe I should buy a pretty new dress, too. Oh, my, this is sounding like fun! Could it be a reality show? We could film it in the basement now that you've moved out.
Oh, goodness, there's nothing like an angry has-been Durfee ex-jock to liven up a boring January in Fall River!
Well, dear, that's all for now. I'm off to the kitchen to bake some yummy cookies in case ALL-CAPS drops by. And you know how much the Dobermans like cookies…almost as much as they like cranky visitors!
Love,
Mom
Poor guy got hurt playing mediocre basketball at best so Fall River taxpayers have to overpay him for the rest of his life. $32,500/year talent at best based on intelligence and work ethic. His daughter slapped him for being such as loser.
ReplyDeleteHe is a joke. Robert Correia was a low level aggorant, igornant monkey and the city continues to be a disater due to the stupidity of the people that vote in the same useless folls in time and time again. They dont need any brains only a portuguese surname( last name. Wake up and smell the favas.
ReplyDeleteUnderachieving money grabber. Makes me sick.
ReplyDeleteFor 2009 Fiola's salary at JOBS FOR FALL RIVER INC was :
ReplyDelete142,319 Base
7932 BONUS
23147 OTHER COMPENSATION
5318 RETIREMENT
2277 NON TAXABLE BENEFITS
180,992 AND A BONUS FOR MAKING FALL RIVER NUMBER #1 IN UNEMPLOYMENT IN THE STATE.
Is this why Fall River isn't going in the correct direction? I can bring Jobs to the city in the next 3 months. Fiola is doing his best to hold that up! I think it's time for the citizens of the city to smarten up. City hall don't give a dam about you, do you know why? I'll tell you because there getting a paycheck every week.
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