The Housing Authority is going to overhaul its four-person board of directors and make their $187,000 positions unpaid and part-time, officials announced Thursday.
The decision came after the Boston Consulting Group delivered a $10 million study which showed that none of eight major housing authorities in the nation pay directors. It didn’t get into their cars and drivers that the city’s also receive.
Even before the study was released, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer had called for a similar shake-up to correct what he called “an antiquated management structure.”
HA chairman John Rhea tried to put the best face of the study, which he had commissioned, by pointing out that the federal government has cut nearly $200 million a year in support over the last decade.
But the findings were still harsh:
* There is a “perceived lack of unity among board members.”
* The backlog of work orders has reached 330,000 and some take two years to complete.
* It can take new tenants 12 months to clear the bureaucracy and move in.
* The board’s 26 meetings a year are too many and its priorities are diffuse.
Officials said Albany would have to approve the shift to a new five-member board so there was no timetable for the revamp. Current board members, who were named by Mayor Bloomberg, are not expected to stay.
dseifman@nypost.com