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Private Eye
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
5.24.2007
Bruce Blanning, executive director of Professional Engineers in California Government, is on record that outsourcing work to private companies "costs twice as much as having state employees do it." A study by LEGG, Inc., cited in the Sacramento Bee, notes that with salary, benefits, management costs, training and equipment, a permanent state engineer costs $173,000 to $209,000 a year, "similar to the yearly rate for a private consultant." Meanwhile, an Oakland freeway ramp damaged in a April 29 explosion opens today, in time for the Memorial Day weekend and before the anticipated date of June 2. The private firm of C.C. Myers handled the repair. Union Pacific, also a private company, repaired a burned trestle in Sacramento long ahead of schedule.
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