This certainly isn’t the kind of news you want to see if you’re a public transportation service that is running out of money and about to push for higher taxes on local residents. The Inspector General who oversees the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system has identified employees who were clocking in for overtime and then not showing up for work.
In the most flagrant example, surveillance by the BART police department found that a technician for the system’s automatic fare collection system improperly clocked in for 106 hours across 18 days in 2023, totaling more than $9,000 in falsely billed wages and benefits.
The $9,000 is petty change compared to what this employee seems to have stolen in total.
[Alan] Boie earned $253,000 in total compensation in 2022 and around $140,000 in 2023, up to the date of his resignation in October. Boie’s $253,380 in total pay and benefits in 2022…
