DWP shake up

Just three months into the job, the new head of L.A.'s Department of Water and Power has reshuffled top management with new and promoted personnel who will rake in $2.2 million a year in combined salaries. Beth Barrett in the Daily News/

The management shift comes even as the City Council next week is scheduled to vote on the utility's request to hike power rates 9 percent over the next three years and water rates 6 percent over the next two years.

But General Manager H. David Nahai, who replaced career bureaucrat Ron Deaton on Dec. 1 as head of the $4.5 billion utility, said that by eliminating some top positions and not filling several others, the DWP ultimately will save $920,000 a year in high-level salaries.

And he said