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... Texas Youth Commission conservator Richard Nedelkoff plans to hire a permanent executive director soon, he says, and it sounds like it won't be current acting ... .D. is a prime candidate for the permanent spot. Making me even more hopeful, Nedelkoff looked to outside sources, not within Texas' corrections bureaucracy, for juvenile justice ... apply inappropriately to youth prisons. I still haven't heard back about the interview with Nedelkoff I requested, but his first few public acts have been cause ...

... him down, but the Texas Youth Commission finally has a new conservator, Richard Nedelkoff, the third to hold the position since the agency was placed under conservatorship last ... out a time frame for this slot in his resume', according to a press release announcing Nedelkoff's hiring at Eckerd: In Florida , he was the Executive Director of the Florida Network of Youth ... last two, short-timers who held the conservator's slot whispered into Nedelkoff's ear, "Don't quit your day job." Certainly nobody ...

... says the Florida non-profit he works for will not pursue contracts with TYC to house young offenders. When Richard Nedelkoff was first appointed conservator, I wrote on Grits about "One potential conflict of interest not reported in initial ... 9), the new conservator recognized the conflict and took steps to resolve it: Eckerd withdrew its proposal in December, when Nedelkoff was appointed to the Texas job. "I knew there would be a perception of a conflict ... so to remove that, Eckerd withdrew," ...

... of right now none of those positions have been filled. Next up are conservator Richard Nedelkoff and acting executive director Dimitria Pope. Sylvester Turner tried to pin ... on whether Dimitria Pope would remain executive director, but Nedelkoff said he'd prefer to discuss the matter privately, deflecting the question fairly admirably. Turner made ... time" talking to Dimitria Pope if she won't be there next week. Nedelkoff didn't budge though. Looking at the discussion overall, though, I'd still bet ...

... Commission woes that indicates Sen. John Whitmire is still on the warpath against the new conservator, Richard Nedelkoff. Whitmire intends to use a hearing scheduled on Friday to call Mr. N on ... I don't know who's on first base, and I'm not sure Nedelkoff knows what inning we're in," Mr. Whitmire said. "I don't have confidence ... convenes Friday in Austin. He and other legislators say they will direct Mr. Nedelkoff - who in December became the agency's third conservator in nine months - to bring some ...

TYC Conservator Richard Nedelkoff this week forwarded a reform plan (pdf), an extensive 120 page publication I've only just received, to the Governor which included a recommendation for ending his conservatorship at the end of July 2008 ... of you has done your part to move this agency forward. I hope you will all be as proud of our accomplishments as I am. My bests, Richard TYC and juvie corrections folks in particular are strongly encouraged to give the document a read (or at least a skim) and let ...

... I trust" tell him it was important to keep pepper spray in the "arsenal." Asked his position on the topic, Conservator Richard Nedelkoff replied cautiously that in other states like California, "somebody" ... "like the federal government," would come in and tell ... fall in the Texas Register and which was awaiting final approval would not be enacted by the new conservator: Mr. Nedelkoff "wants to use other measures, and much better training, to dramatically scale it back," said agency spokesman Jim ...

... . Rick Perry that the embattled state juvenile prison system is almost done with changes needed to operate on its own again. Richard Nedelkoff has recommended that the agency be removed from a conservatorship by July 31, almost 16 months after the TYC was put into ... right, but that decision is one we'll need to work out with the legislative leadership," she said. News of Nedelkoff's recommendation drew silence from legislative leaders, some of whom said the agency was still lagging on several key ...

... station that one week isn't long enough to leave the Executive Director's job posting open. Harrington says he "smells duplicity and that a 'fix is in' for a particular candidate." I'm sure that's true. Conservator Richard Nedelkoff already said he had a short list of candidates in mind, so this doesn't bother me a lot - I already expected him to pick his own person. Under acting executive director Dimitria Pope, often top jobs ...

I should have mentioned earlier that TYC conservator Richard Nedelkoff told legislators today he will "make parity effective soon" for TYC entry-level JCO pay, increasing it to match TDCJ's recent pay raise for new recruits. That won't affect veteran staff, but will increase how quickly new applicants accelerate through the first few salary levels during the first 16 months, if the salary hike follows TDCJ's example. In other ...