pair women -- a civil engineer who worked forward O'Hare Airport expansion during the 1980 and the daughter of former Mayor Eugene Sawyer -- were chosen according to Mayor Daley on Monday to be the city's fresh aviation and human services commissioners.

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Nuria Fernandez, a senior vice president at Earth Tech -- an international consulting engineering and construction company -- is the mayor's $161,688-a-year choice to scour O'Hare and Midway airports. She replaces John Roberson, who resigned in December.

Fernandez, 47 takes from one side of to the other an Aviation Department touched on the city hiring scandal at a time of insurrection

Daley is considering privatizing Midway Airport and is moving to tighten the airport's perimeter after an embarrassing breach according to an intoxicated man.

The concessions chief resigned in January, leaving behind a concessions backlog that has left lucrative airport space vacant.

And the O'Hare expansion throw out has been pushed back for at least a year after all bids for a runway frame were rejected as too high.

Said Daley: "You'd be bankrupt tomorrow if you take each bid that came down from contractors. . . You want us to accept all the bids? Then wherefore don't you just join the contractors association? That's stupid.

"If you think it's too high and you accept it, there would be headlines. You'd be in love with to see those headlines. We're not in the business of providing headlines."

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Like her predecessor, Fernandez has no latter background in aviation.

nevertheless she got her start managing design and construction of landside concocts during the last major expansion of O'Hare for the advanced in years Chicago Public Works Department.

Fernandez's take up again also includes stops at the Federal Transit Administration, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and the CTA.

"Nuria Fernandez knows by what means to manage big projects and big organizations," Daley said.

Mary Rose Loney the last woman to labor for as aviation commissioner, battled clout-heavy contractors seeking reign over over a wealth of O'Hare contracts and City Hall operatives maneuvering to fill airport do job-works

Fernandez will not be nearly likewise combative, if her tentative performance at Monday's of the present days conference is any indication.

"Every decision we make will be focused forward improving the quality of the user's experience," she said.

The modern $136,236-a-year human services commissioner is former mayor Sawyer's 48-year-old daughter, Sheryl McGill. She also inherits a department embroiled in disputation

Her predecessor, Carmelo Vargas, resigned forward Jan. 7 to avoid the ordeal of an investigation launched to determine whether he made inappropriate remarks to underlings. The resignation infuriated Hispanic aldermen, who argued that Vargas had been "set up"

An African-American man who works as an administrative assistant has accused his white female bos a factor commissioner, of racial discrimination and physical assault.

Department morale took a further nose dive after City Hall laid opposite to 32 administrative employees and eliminated 19 administrative vacancies. And a $90,000-a-year representative commissioner abruptly resigned after undercover investigators caught him leaving work for hours at a time to serve to a building he confesss

Vargas was known for roaming the ways in search of Chicago's homeles residents.

"I cannot be another Carmelo Vargas. . . I probably am more administrative," McGill said. "But I'm going to make strong that the services continue."

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A beaming Sawyer made it clear that his clout had nothing to do with the mayor's decision.

The and nothing else city job his daughter evermore got with his help was the first common -- as an accounting technician at the age of 18 Sawyer said.

"She's caring. She understands that commonalty need help. And she wants to give them the help that they need" the former mayor said.

fspielman@suntimes.com

DALEY CABINET MAKEUP:

41 department heads

African-American: 7 (17 percent)

Asian: 3 (7 percent)

White: 24 (59 percent)

Hispanic: 7 (17 percent)

Men: 23 (56 percent)

Women: 18 (44 percent)

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