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Auditor criticizes Transportation Department training practices

October 29, 2001
By: Robert Sandler
State Capital Bureau

The state auditor says some state employees were paid for six hours of work when they only worked for a half-hour at a Missouri Department of Transportation skills competition.

Robert Sandler has more from Jefferson City.

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The competitions... known as roadeos...allowed workers to earn prizes that cost the state at least $870,000 over the last two years.

Jeff Briggs of MoDOT says that it will have to find an alternative to the program.

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Contents: MoDOT Spokesman Jeff Briggs questions the best way for the state to train its employees in the future.

MoDOT suspended the roadeo program in August due to budget constraints.

From Jefferson City, Robert Sandler, KMOX News.