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How officials at one Oregon sewer agency scored years of lavish trips and lots of meals
Manage episode 474422860 series 2586574
First-class airfare to Hawaii. Five-star hotel stays. Lots and lots of food.
All of it footed — directly or indirectly — by customers of a large Portland-area utility.
A recent Oregonian/OregonLive investigation found that executives with Clean Water Services, Washington County’s sewer agency, have spent years enjoying fancy business trips to Hawaii and meals on ratepayers’ dime.
None of the lavish travel spending is accounted for in the agency’s annual budgets. And, despite months of probing questions and public records requests, officials have not yet disclosed the total cost of four Hawaiian trips or provided the receipts on hundreds of thousands of dollars in food spending.
On the latest Beat Check, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh talks to Jamie Goldberg about her rigorous watchdog reporting led to this month’s series on Clean Water Services.
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343 episodes
Manage episode 474422860 series 2586574
First-class airfare to Hawaii. Five-star hotel stays. Lots and lots of food.
All of it footed — directly or indirectly — by customers of a large Portland-area utility.
A recent Oregonian/OregonLive investigation found that executives with Clean Water Services, Washington County’s sewer agency, have spent years enjoying fancy business trips to Hawaii and meals on ratepayers’ dime.
None of the lavish travel spending is accounted for in the agency’s annual budgets. And, despite months of probing questions and public records requests, officials have not yet disclosed the total cost of four Hawaiian trips or provided the receipts on hundreds of thousands of dollars in food spending.
On the latest Beat Check, Shane Dixon Kavanaugh talks to Jamie Goldberg about her rigorous watchdog reporting led to this month’s series on Clean Water Services.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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