Caltrans conferences and your taxdollars at work
By Nathan Mintz | February 19, 2010
This article is a few months old, but I think it helps illustrate just how bad the entitlement culture is in Sacramento. While we’re putting teachers on furlough a couple days a month and eschewing essential services throughout the state, they are spending over $29,000 for 52 cal trans workers to attend a convention at this four star luxury resort. That’s about $580 each in case you were wondering- about 195 dollars per night (assume three nights). That’s not including food, liquour, massages, or whatever else may have been charged- the total bill for this could easily exceed $50,000 after all that is included.
We go after AIG executives after it was bailed out for going on an executive retreat less than a year ago, and suddenly its ok for Caltrans to do the same thing? Someone should have rejected this training request. This is a prime example of how the bureaucracy doesn’t know how to save money- its cultural. This conference request could have easily been furloughed this year in light of the budget crunch. So much for common sense in government.
Sometimes it’s appropriate for companies or even the government to sponsor sending their employees to conferences or symposium, particularly as part of continuing education. However, in the private sector, this never occurs when their is no budget for it. How we can approve this as a legitimate expense when we are shutting down offices statewide to balance the budget?
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