Dive Summary:

• The Department of Streets and Sanitation in Chicago, Illinois, will add eight division superintendents, adding three new divisions to the staff.
• Mayor Rahm Emanuel created the new middle-management positions to oversee his grid collection system, and will spend $592,000 on salaries ranging from $63,000 to $97,000.
• The new positions will be paid for by removing eight empty administrative positions, with an anticipated savings of $610,000.

From the article:

Sources said the new jobs were created in response to an avalanche of complaints from aldermen concerned that ward superintendents were being yanked out of their wards for much of the work week to supervise grid pick-ups.

Eliminated titles ranged from assistant commissioners and staff assistants, to an assistant to the commissioner, a voucher expediter, a storekeeper and a chief dispatcher...