Barras: Toward a more perfect CFO for D.C.

D.C. Chief Financial Officer Natwar Gandhi apparently took the advice I offered last week. After sources told me his retirement was imminent, I suggested he use that $417 million surplus he helped amass as an opportunity to announce his departure. That’s exactly what he did.

City officials have since offered effusive praise: Councilman Jack Evans, chairman of the Committee on Finance and Revenue, asserted much of the District’s “success in maintaining fiscal discipline can be attributed to [Gandhi’s] leadership.