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Facing a tighter budget, the Metra board of directors on Wednesday decided to look within the agency for its next CEO, turning to a 20-year veteran who is used to dealing with the costs of repairing and replacing the railroad’s aging equipment.
In a unanimous vote during its regular monthly meeting, the board hired James Derwinski, 49, currently Metra’s chief mechanical officer, to replace current Executive Director Don Orseno, who is retiring at the end of the year. Orseno also had been a longtime Metra veteran, and the board decided again to go with an internal candidate to lead the commuter rail service after a nationwide search…Please click here to read Mary Wisniewski’s story in the Tribune.