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DRPA ousts chief operating officer

The Delaware River Port Authority board has dismissed the agency's chief operating officer and launched a nationwide search for a replacement.

Timothy M. Pulte, a commercial real estate manager, was named chief operating officer of the Delaware River Port Authority in 2009
Timothy M. Pulte, a commercial real estate manager, was named chief operating officer of the Delaware River Port Authority in 2009Read more
    by By Paul Nussbaum, Inquirer Staff Writer | Columnist
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The Delaware River Port Authority board has dismissed the agency's chief operating officer and launched a nationwide search for a replacement.

Tim Pulte, of Garnet Valley, had been COO since August, 2009, with an annual salary of $180,081. The bi-state DRPA board, newly reconstituted with appointees of Gov. Wolf, decided Wednesday "to go a different direction...it's no disparagement on Tim Pulte," said new DRPA board chairman Ryan Boyer, the business manager of Laborers' District Council of Metropolitan Philadelphia & Vicinity.

Pulte's last day was Wednesday. Boyer said he expects a new COO, who will oversee operation of the DRPA's four toll bridges, to be hired by June or July.

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