As of today it remains a mystery to know how the L.A. Department of Water and Power spent $40 million, which it claims to have spent on two labor-management training institutes.
That public money go unaccounted for is bad enough. Making this an especially disconcerting ordeal is the fact that this situation can be legally protected from being made public.
As it turns out, the training institutes are governed equally by the DWP and by IBEW Local 18, the DWP union. Each side has equal representation on the two governing boards. To make the records public, the DWP would have to persuade the union to agree to go along with that. Without both sides agreeing to make the spending transparent, the decision to go public would end in a deadlock.
The article that is referenced today is the following:
http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2013/10/eric_garcetti_joint_training_i.php
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