South Carolina transit department could save 8.3 million
Auditors say the Transportation Department with a 735 million budget and 5,300 workers could cut or redefine 443 jobs to save 8.3 million. The audit notes lack of a strategic plan and plans to use findings to direct reforms.
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Columbia
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Transportation Department
David Beasley
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Audit prompts plan updates and cost-cutting in transportation agency
The audit urges annual updates to the strategic business and IT plans to guide decisions, improve accountability, and monitor stakeholder communications. It proposes reengineering pre-construction processes, a contractor self cert program, revised quality policies, and staffing changes to cut costs and reclassify jobs.
Molestation suspect planned to live out of state
A man accused of molesting teenage boys planned to relocate to North Carolina while awaiting trial after a business offer proved false. Berg’s lawyer withdrew the request to retire a judge when the misleading information surfaced.
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Charleston
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Russell F Berg
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Berg
Andy Savage
Frank Eppes
Girl Mauled by Three Rottweilers in Grandfather's Yard
Five year old Brienna Caldwell was hospitalized in Charlotte with critical but stable injuries to the face neck and chest after three Rottweilers escaped their pen in Lancaster County. A neighbor shot the dogs after the attack lasted at least nineteen minutes as health officials planned rabies tests and police investigate.
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Charlotte, N.C
Brienna Caldwell
Carolinas Med
Shirley Ingram
Lancaster County
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