Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Legislature agreed to create an inspector general job for high-speed rail as part of a compromise that they hope will get the project moving and end with an actual train.
“We don’t know,” Rendon said. “We need to be vigilant. The IG will provide what we need to carry that out.”
Such outside advisors have lacked the resources and the mission to intensively delve into the day to day work of the rail project, its army of consultants and its stable of international contractors.The IG will bring a level of oversight that we have not had before. This is very powerful.“The IG will bring a level of oversight that we have not had before,” said Helen Kerstein, the lone bullet train expert at the Legislative Analyst’s office. “This is very powerful.
That would include investigating waste, fraud and abuse, as well as working with law enforcement and prosecutors, she said.How big an organization will it require? So far, there is no budget. But the IG would be paid the same as the IG for the Bureau of Prisons and Rehabilitation, who makes $192,382 and will have a staff of 212 in the coming fiscal year.
By the time Weiderhold left as Amtrak inspector general, he had helped put several hundred people in jail and caused 2,000 people to be fired.The high speed rail inspector general will not have authority to control actual spending, a decision that was considered and rejected by Newsom.
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