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The going rate for a chief executive at a medium to large toll agency in the US is presently in the range $180k to $190k/year salary. That's the conclusion of a study done for Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority by Cody & Associates, a Cocoa Beach Florida management consultancy specializing in pay issues.

Longtime PBS&J consultant Max Crumit is an interim executive director (ED). Crumit will run the tumultuous Orlando toll agency for about six months while a search is made for a permanent ED - if OOCEA (Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority) survives as an independent entity. There are strong moves for Florida Turnpike Enterprise to take over the Orlando tollroads along with Tampa's.

Orlando Toll (formally OOCEA) has posted a notice that it is seeking an Interim Executive Director to run the agency for about three to six months. They say the candidate must have a B. degree from a university and a minimum of eight to ten years senior level management experience. Plus a valid state drivers license.

Under the latest agreement between Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) and Florida DOT/Turnpike the troubled regional authority will build just two of eight segments. The other six will be a state responsibility. And in order to get the state to take on the project OOCEA is agreeing to accelerate payments on an old loan from the state - called in the obscure language of these deals a 'lease purchase agreement' with the state.

Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority's executive director, Mike Snyder brought forward his departure date to December 29 under pressure from area mayor Teresa Jacobs. Meeting today the 5-person board of directors accepted his resignation. He'll get three months severance pay of just under $82k plus an annual pension of $70k. He turns 65 on March 7 next year and initially proposed to stay until then.

Orlando-area Mayor Teresa Jacobs has sent a memo to fellow directors of the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) proposing they replace current chief executive Michael Snyder Dec 29 and install a county Comptroller Jim Moye as interim chief. Jacobs has said Snyder is responsible for putting the toll authority in a parlous financial condition by gambling with longterm financing based on short-term variable interest rate debt rollovers.

Mike Snyder executive director of the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority says he's resigning effective March 7 next, his 65th birthday. His departure had been loudly called for by Teresa Jacobs, the mayor of Orlando and another board member. That meant at least two of the five person board were likely to vote for his ouster.

Orlando Orange County mayor Teresa Jacobs is on a campaign to force out Mike Snyder as chief executive of the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA.) She accuses Snyder of mismanaging the toll system's finances so seriously its financial stability is in jeopardy. Jacobs as local mayor is one of five members of the Authority's board of directors.

Mike Snyder executive director at the Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) has gotten good scores from three of four directors in an annual performance review conducted by the board of directors. This follows weeks of speculation in the local media that portrayed his job as seriously in doubt, portraying Snyder as "in the hot seat" - apparently an allusion to the electric chair once used in execution of murderers?

Orlando Orange County Expressway Authority (OOCEA) is raising about $300m bond money for several projects:

- $75m toward work extending the Apopka Expressway another 5 miles (8km) in the northwest