Nutter names

Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, December, 2007 | by MARK McDONALD mcdonam@phillynews.com 215-854-2646

Mayor-elect Michael Nutter yesterday introduced his third appointee with Washington connections, this time the city's new budget director, Stephen J. Agostini, who is chief financial officer for the Economics and Statistics Administration within the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Agostini, 47, recently lived in Philadelphia while his wife taught at Villanova University, but they tired of the long commuting and moved to the Washington area.

Agostini has extensive experience in fiscal positions in city governments in San Francisco and Milwaukee County, Wisc.

The city's incoming finance director, Rob Dubow, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority and himself a former budget officer, said Agostini is "one of those people the...