Massachusetts: Transportation Payroll Soared Under Patrick
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the Together We Can! department:
"As Governor Deval Patrick merges the state�s transportation agencies in
an attempt to reduce duplication and waste, a review of payroll records
shows that his own administration presided over much of the growth in
spending he must now rein in.
The two major transportation agencies more than doubled the number of
six-figure jobs since Patrick won the governorship in 2006.
Transportation secretaries under Patrick have been paid 25 percent more
than in the prior administration. New appointees have been simply
layered over old ones, with the displaced workers given new titles.
The result: The Executive Office of Transportation and Public Works and
the Massachusetts Highway Department together saw a 20 percent surge in
their payrolls under Patrick, according to state comptroller records
obtained under open records laws. The boost in personnel costs came as
the administration, which had pledged early on to reform the
transportation system, was facing an increasingly difficult financial
picture." --Boston Globe Nov 8 2009
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