OTHER NEWS - Aug. 13, 1993

Union Calls for State Audit of Caltrans: The union for California Department of Transportation highway design employees, stepping up the battle over the use of outside contractors, called the agency’s contracting program wasteful and inefficient and asked for a state audit. The union, the Professional Engineers in California Government, sent a formal request to the state controller’s office to investigate its charges against the agency’s use of outside architects, engineers and surveyors. Union members at the news conference in Sacramento cited delays, shoddy work and cost overruns by outside companies as cause for a state investigation.