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California Watch: BART urged supplier to report job growth
When BART received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create "thousands of jobs."
But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, e-mails obtained by California Watch show.
In a 2009 exchange, a BART supplier received a disapproving e-mail after he said no jobs had been created with a $4.8 million stimulus grant that BART used to buy auxiliary power supply equipment for transit cars.
The supplier, rail manufacturing firm Bombardier Transportation, simply hadn't hired any new employees to build the units for BART, a Bombardier executive reported.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/BART-urged-supplier-to-report-job-growth-3799946.php