LAWMAKERS WANT ANSWERS FROM S.C. TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT …

|| By FITSNEWS || Twenty-three South Carolina State Senators – half of the “upper” chamber of the S.C. General Assembly – want the state’s mismanaged transportation bureaucracy to be placed under a microscope.

The lawmakers – led by S.C. Senator Lee Bright – sent a letter to the S.C. Legislative Audit Council (SCLAC) last week urging the oversight agency to “conduct a comprehensive audit of the Department of Transportation.”

Specifically, the audit request seeks “the actual level of funding that the department receives from all sources and how that funding changed since (FY 2005-06).” It also seeks a list of all S.C. Department of Transportation (SCDOT) expenditures including “any irregularities among expenditures and any areas of wasteful expenditures the department has failed to curtail.”

Furthermore, the Senators ask the auditors to determine whether the agency has “followed the letter and spirit” of the 2007 SCDOT reform effort – which was supposed to prioritize projects based on need, not politics.

Clearly that reform didn’t take … as this website first began exposing in the spring of 2011.

Since then things have clearly gotten worse … with lawmakers so far only proposing to throw more money at the problem.

Oh well … at least they are finally asking how much they’ve already thrown at the problem (with abysmal results).

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