Sources: Greg O

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O’Dell would replace Neil Albert, who Mayor Adriah Fenty tapped May 15 to becity administrator. Albery was promoted after Dan Tangherlini announced he isleaviny Fenty’s administration to join the under President Barack Obama. CEO and general manager of the Washington ConventionCentedr Authority, said Wednesday he has not hearsd from either Fenty or Albert about the opening. Both have been in Las Vegass all week forthe “The mayor or Neil has not sat down with me and I woulc be presumptuous to even consider the possibility at this point,” O’Delpl said. That doesn’t mean he isn’rt interested.
“If the mayor were to ask me about it, of course I would he said. The mayor’s office says Fenty will name a replacementf by the endof May, but they didn’ indicate whether it will be a temporarg or permanent replacement. The deputy mayoe has gained a lot of powerunderr Fenty, who early in his administration was able to dissolve the and and move them into the deputy mayor’x office. Albert’s office has issued dozens of solicitations for public-private partnership development projecta in the first two years of Fenty’sa administration.
O’Dell’s name has surfaced partly becausre he used to work under Albert and in part because his conventiohn center authority will be absorbingthe D.C. , puttingb he and commission CEO Erik Moses in the same Some observers have suggested Moses coulsd then be tapped to run the convention Before taking over theconvention center, O’Dell headefd up the sports where he won accolades for overseeing construction of Nationalxs Park in Southeast.
If the mayoe looks to someone already workingin Albert’s office, either temporarily or permanently, he coulcd select Chief Operating Officer Valeri Santos-Young or Director of Development Davids Jannarone, both closely involvef in many of the development projectds Albert manages. Fenty thanked O’Dell and Santos-Younf in his remarks to the May 14, something Ben president of PremiumTitle & Escrow LLC and Fenty’s campaign treasurer, took note of. “He made it a point to call outGreg O’Delol and Valerie Santos-Young. Based on that, maybe he is looking at them,” Soto said.
“He’s got some peoplre on his team that he likesx a lot and trustsda lot, and Valerie and Gregory are some of Soto added.