Khalil A. Zaied, a jack of many trades, was in the present day named Baltimore’s director of Public Works, an company with many issues.
Last seen as a deputy mayor underneath Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Zaied will return to metropolis authorities after a short stint as public works director for Champaign, Illinois, a metropolis one-sixth of Baltimore’s dimension.
Prior to that, he was a vice chairman of KCI Technologies, serving to supervise Baltimore’s massive conduit dig underneath Greenmount Avenue, and as a supervisor for El Paso, Texas.
In February, he resigned from the Champaign job, citing “non-public household issues” that required him to transfer out-of-state, in accordance to a neighborhood media report. Next Monday he’ll begin at DPW, one of many few businesses he didn’t serve throughout his twenty years in Baltimore authorities.
During the administrations of Martin O’Malley, Sheila Dixon and Rawlings-Blake, Zaied was director of faculty amenities planning, director of common companies, director of transportation and deputy mayor for operations.
Mayor Brandon Scott in the present day praised his collection of Zaied.
As DPW “enters a brand new period” with the resumption of recycling and different applications, “now is an ideal time to welcome a examined and transformational chief like Khalil Zaied to take the division to new heights,” Scott declared.
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Zaied was not with out controversy throughout his tenure right here.
As DOT director, he supervised town’s velocity digicam program that issued tens of hundreds of {dollars} of inaccurate rushing tickets.
He was faulted by the inspector common for failing to implement enhancements in payroll processing that resulted in extra time fraud, whereas federal prosecutors went after his chief of the Circulator bus system, who admitted promoting surplus bus shelters for $70,000.
Zaied additionally utilized for and acquired greater than $14,000 in homestead property tax breaks on a Butchers Hill rental property he owned. The credit score ought to solely have been obtainable to owner-occupied properties.
“It is an honor of a lifetime to return to town I like” – Khalil Zaied.
“Like Mayor Scott, I’m dedicated to constructing cleaner, more healthy communities and using each device on the metropolis’s disposal to cut back waste, enhance air and water high quality and supply Baltimoreans with reliable routine companies,” Zaied mentioned within the press launch. “It is an honor of a lifetime to return to town I like.”
Zaied will probably be performing director of DPW till he’s confirmed by the City Council.
He’ll serve on the Board of Estimates as a Scott appointee, changing Richard Luna, who will return to his place as DPW’s deputy director.
Khalil Zaied seems over the development of the conduit line underneath Greenmount Avenue as vice chairman of KCI Technologies in 2021. (YouTube)
