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To try to place McCahill at the scene, prosecutors subpoenaed the information from his Clipper card, which they believed he’d used to pay his bus fare.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The request for McCahill’s travel record was one of the rare occasions that police or lawyers have sought to use the Clipper card database to track the whereabouts of a cardholder.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_78323\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 235px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/clipper-card-scott-james-the-bay-citizen.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-78323\" title=\"clipper card scott james the bay citizen\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/10/clipper-card-scott-james-the-bay-citizen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"235\" height=\"230\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Clipper card (Scott James/The Bay Citizen)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, which administers the card, it has received three search warrants or subpoenas seeking customers’ personal travel information since the card’s inception in 2010. In only one of those cases did the search turn up any relevant travel information, according to the commission’s response to a public records request from The Bay Citizen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Use of the card, accepted by every major Bay Area public transit system, is soaring with 689,000 transactions a day and more than 1 million active Clipper cards. Many cardholders might not realize that data tracking their every move on public transit is stored on computers and available to anyone with a search warrant or subpoena. Personal data can be stored for seven years after a Clipper account is closed, according to the commission’s policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition, a new smartphone app, called FareBot, allows anyone to scan a Clipper card and find out where the owner has been.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Privacy advocates say the transportation commission should not store data on individuals’ locations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As with all location information, Clipper cards can tell quite a bit about a person – it could show that a person got off BART at a rally,” said Chris Conley, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union on Northern California. “Clipper is one place that collects this data that people might not really be aware of.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>John Goodwin, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Transportation Commission, said that three search warrants or subpoenas was a relatively low number and that people’s private information is well protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Absent a subpoena or a search warrant, we would not turn over any information,” Goodwin said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Transit riders can remain anonymous if they pay for a Clipper card in cash and do not register it, he noted. People who don’t register stand to lose any money on their card if it is lost, stolen or stops working.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the new app that scans Clipper cards for travel information, Goodwin said he was “completely unconcerned” because there is “no personally identifiable information on the card.” He said Clipper might even roll out a similar app so people can access their travel history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the case of the robbery getaway, prosecutors wrote in the subpoena that McCahill “is believed to have used his Clipper card to escape from police.” But it turned out that the suspect had not used the card to pay his fare – or perhaps had not traveled on Muni at all. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission didn’t have any data related to McCahill’s alleged escape, said Pam Grove, a commission spokeswoman. The case is ongoing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In another case, an attorney for the family of a man who died after a fall on a Muni Metro train sought Clipper card records to determine which train he was riding. Hin Don, 81, fell after the operator of the M line allegedly jerked the train forward before the elderly man could sit down. Don suffered bleeding in his brain and went into a coma for a month before dying Dec. 25, 2011.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chuck Geerhart, a lawyer for Don’s family, sued the city. Geerhart said he wanted to depose the train operator, but the city wouldn’t tell him which train or operator was involved. For that reason, he said he subpoenaed Don’s Clipper card information to find out which train he’d been riding. The Metropolitan Transportation Commission handed over the information, and Geerhart plans to depose the train operator.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the third instance, a San Francisco police officer obtained a search warrant seeking information about the credit card that an unnamed person used to purchase a Clipper card, saying it could help in the investigation of an unspecified felony. The police also asked for “dates and exact times and exact locations where this Clipper card was used.” A police spokesman declined to comment on the warrant. Grove said the transportation commission didn’t have any information to turn over.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Civil rights advocates say there might be few requests for Clipper card information because law enforcement officials have easy access to cellphone location data. Cellphone tracking is on the rise, and police often can get the information without a warrant, the ACLU’s Conley said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2010, California enacted a law limiting the use of data collected on bridges and toll roads through FasTrak devices, but Clipper cards were not included in the legislation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The FareBot app has been put to use by travelers who want to check their balance or see where they've been. Eric Butler, the software developer behind FareBot, said he was \"a little surprised\" to find that a person's entire travel history is stored on his or her Clipper card.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You can read them from some distance, so it is possible that somebody could brush their phone on your back pocket and they could know where you live, where you shop and quite a bit about your life,\" he said.\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nThis story was produced by The Bay Citizen, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting. 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In a confidential memo dated Sept. 27, BART General Manager Grace Crunican wrote that the transit agency would accept best and final offers from both developers on Sept. 28.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The memo did not give any explanation for the decision, and BART spokesman Jim Allison declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the transit agency’s decision to reopen the bidding, Fang told the Millbrae City Council last month that the BART board was working with Justin Development on a hotel project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the meeting, Crunican fired off a memo to the Millbrae City Council, apologizing for Fang’s failure to mention that BART is now looking at proposals from two developers.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I regret that this information was not made clear during the City Council meeting and I apologize for any confusion that this omission may have caused,” Crunican wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republic Urban executives were angered last year when the BART chose to negotiate with Lui, who contributed $3,500 to Fang’s 2010 re-election campaign and also helped pay for a $10,000 trip to China that Fang had organized for San Francisco officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Michael Van Every, a senior vice president at Republic, called it a “clear conflict of interest with Mr. Lui and Mr. Fang” at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang’s mother, former San Francisco Examiner owner Florence Fang, also owns an office building in view of the Millbrae BART station, whose value could be affected by the development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fang countered at the time that Republic Urban had lobbied the board with even greater gusto. 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But he said he thought that the board had voted to work with Justin Development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There seems to be some sort of misunderstanding,” he said. “I think we need to take a look at it in front of the full board.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Keller and Lui did not return calls seeking comment, and a Republic Urban representative declined to comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Millbrae BART station is one of the Bay Area’s biggest transit hubs, where Caltrain, BART and local bus service converge. Lui told the Millbrae City Council last month that his company would like to build a hotel, along with apartments and retail and office space on the land BART owns around the station. Republic has proposed a mixed-use office development.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A study by an independent consultant found that the hotel project wouldn’t be profitable without a subsidy. 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And the breathtaking sight of the Blue Angels in the sky.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21697683/feds-probe-uc-berkeley-anti-semitism-allegations\">Feds probe UC Berkeley anti-Semitism allegations\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Federal officials are investigating anti-Semitism allegations at the University of California, Berkeley. The Los Angeles Times recent graduates claim university officials fomented a hostile campus climate for Jewish students by failing to curb anti-Israel protests. 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The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously in Sacramento that a \"status review\" study—spurred by a petition from the Center for Biological Diversity and other groups—is warranted.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.insidebayarea.com/oakland-tribune/ci_21690291/die-hard-oakland-athletics-fans-celebrating-magical-season\">Die-hard Oakland Athletics fans celebrating 'magical' season at division-clinching game\u003c/a> (Oakland Tribune)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>As the 2012 season began, Oakland A's fans were livid -- general manger Billy Beane had again traded some of the team's best players for prospects and owner Lew Wolff talked openly of his desire to move the team to San Jose. 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Buildings considered for historical significance usually must be at least 50 years old, Fremont planner Kelly Diekmann said. Also, researching the facility's history and preparing reports for historical review may have cost the city as much as $45,000.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.baycitizen.org/education/story/veto-pits-school-autonomy-against-meals/\">Veto pits school autonomy against affordable meals\u003c/a> (Bay Citizen)\u003cbr>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Arguing that he did not want to \"erode the independence and flexibility\" of charter schools, Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend vetoed legislation that would have required charters to provide low-income students free or reduced-price meals. 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De La Fuente's decision to abandon his safe seat representing the Fruitvale district to challenge Kaplan for the seat representing all of Oakland could potentially sway the balance of power on the fractious council and determine whether Oakland adopts De La Fuente's get-tough policing tactics.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\n\u003cli>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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Photo by Dan Brekke/KQED.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It's 7:12 a.m. on Wednesday, and there are still about a dozen empty seats in a car on a BART train pulling out of Dublin. The train rolls past cloud-topped hills and suburban shopping plazas, picking up more passengers along the way.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the time it has reached San Leandro four stops later, all the seats are filled. A pregnant woman gets on and grabs a rail, standing as the train begins to move. I'm the first to offer her my seat; she accepts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I'm not sure how many other passengers might have given up their seat if I hadn't stood. But I know that the question of when to give up your seat - and to whom - is something every train or bus rider has faced.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And commuters might be dealing with those questions more frequently now, as recent policy changes made by Bay Area public transit systems may have made trains and buses more crowded. BART, which typically prohibits bikes in commute directions during rush hour, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2012/08/03/riders-support-bikes-on-bart-during-commute/\">is experimenting by making an exception on Fridays for the month of August\u003c/a>. And changes are coming to Muni policies that are expected \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Babies-in-strollers-on-board-Muni-but-when-3690632.php\">to allow more unfolded strollers on buses\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, \u003ca href=\"http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/04/14/baby-on-board-dont-expect-kindness-on-board-muni/\">the San Francisco Chronicle’s Heather Knight reported\u003c/a> that she took her pregnant sister on crowded Muni buses around San Francisco to find out how many riders would be polite and chivalrous enough to give up their seat. She didn’t find many:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>A woman with her purse sitting on an empty seat next to her looked right at [my sister] Beth and did nothing. Several other people looked straight at her belly and then straight at the floor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the driver of the 45 Union-Stockton headed toward the Marina seemed to think he was actually participating in the Indy 500, a woman put her hands up so Beth, who lost her footing, wouldn’t fall on her. And then the woman remained in her seat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the 8-Bayshore headed back downtown, two hippy-dippy women had a long discussion about rainwater collection, volcanoes and the glory of Mother Earth. That wonder certainly didn’t apply to actual mothers-to-be, as they pretended there wasn’t one standing right above them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Final tally? One well-mannered rider out of several dozen who had seats. I asked Beth to describe the attitude of her fellow Muni riders. “Mostly indifferent to mildly annoyed,” she said.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Giving up your seat to a pregnant woman may seem obvious to some. Of course, that’s not the only unspoken rule of etiquette on public transportation. \u003ca href=\"http://sfist.com/2012/05/14/sf-muni-bart-etiquette-rules.php\">SFist offered these guidelines and others\u003c/a> in May:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Stay to the Right on Escalators and Stairs\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Do Not Audibly Groan or Otherwise Protest When the Bus Stops for a Disabled or Wheelchair-Bound Person\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Take Off Your Damn Backpack Or Enormous Purse\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Singing Is Never Allowed\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Always Offer Your Seat to a Lady Of a Certain Age or Elderly Gentleman\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>So would you offer your seat to a senior citizen or a pregnant woman? 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"content": "\u003cp>by Lance Williams and Zusha Elinson, \u003ca href=\"http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/bart-vendor-pushed-boost-job-numbers-meet-stimulus-promises-17531\">California Watch\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_73348\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 248px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BART.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73348\" title=\"BART\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2012/08/BART.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"140\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">BART train (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 exchange, a BART supplier received a disapproving email after he said no jobs were created with a $4.8 million stimulus grant BART used to buy auxiliary power supply equipment for transit cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supplier, rail manufacturing firm Bombardier Transportation, simply hadn’t hired any new employees to build the units for BART, a Bombardier executive reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zero was a bad number, replied BART project’s manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Feds gave BART $4 million of stimulus money to purchase” power supply units, wrote Jim LaGuardia, a consultant hired by BART to manage the project.\u003c!--more-->\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep saying the stimulus money never achieved any of the stimulus goals, what makes you think we will get more stimulus money for the option APSEs,” he wrote, using an acronym for auxiliary power supply equipment. “BART is in phase two of obtaining stimulus money (more Bombardier APSEs) and it is not going to look good if we keep reporting zero!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scolding apparently did the trick. The Bombardier executive came back with a number – the stimulus money had funded 196 work hours that quarter, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, BART reported that stimulus money for the power unit contract had funded 24,103 work hours at Bombardier, records show. That’s about 11.5 full-time jobs over a two-year period, said BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost. The project also created work for 4.83 full-time mechanics at BART, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART did receive more stimulus money for the project. After the initial grant, the funding was increased to $11.2 million in 2010, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queried about the emails, Trost said BART’s consultant “was just doing his job and just trying to get the numbers that needed to be reported to the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryanne Roberts, spokeswoman for Bombardier, wrote in an email that the company had felt “no pressure” from BART – “just some initial confusion as to what/how to report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts who have studied the $787 billion stimulus program say that in the early going, reported jobs numbers were “soft, as you can imagine,” as Robert Maitner, a Washington, D.C., consultant, put it. He studied the issue of the accuracy of stimulus jobs reporting for an academic journal, the Journal of Government Financial Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genuine confusion over how to report the jobs data mingled with the impulse to pump up the numbers for political or other concerns, Maitner said. The process has always been “somewhat of a PR exercise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, nine months into the program, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the Government Accountability Office found that stimulus jobs reports were riddled with “erroneous or questionable data.” The GAO noted thousands of exaggerated or questionable reports posted on the government’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recovery.gov\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the criticism and improve the accuracy of the numbers, in December 2009, the White House stopped asking stimulus recipients to report how many jobs they had created. Instead, they were asked to make quarterly reports of how many jobs had been paid for with stimulus funds. The change was made Dec. 18, a day after LaGuardia scolded Bombardier in the email exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the new method, the numbers shouldn’t be taken as gospel, said Craig Jennings of the watchdog group \u003ca href=\"http://www.ombwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OMB Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers aren’t really good enough for scientific reporting,” Jennings said. “But they do give a guideline of what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 publication titled “\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/docs/RTC_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report to Congress\u003c/a>,” BART said it hoped the $92 million in stimulus funds would be only the first installment. The initial funds paid for projects such as upgrading electrical service in BART stations ($20 million), building a rail track crossover in Pleasant Hill ($13 million) and replacing the auxiliary power supply equipment on 70 BART cars ($11.2 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Lance Williams and Zusha Elinson, California Watch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 exchange, a BART supplier received a disapproving email after he said no jobs were created with a $4.8 million stimulus grant BART used to buy auxiliary power supply equipment for transit cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supplier, rail manufacturing firm Bombardier Transportation, simply hadn’t hired any new employees to build the units for BART, a Bombardier executive reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zero was a bad number, replied BART project’s manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Feds gave BART $4 million of stimulus money to purchase” power supply units, wrote Jim LaGuardia, a consultant hired by BART to manage the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep saying the stimulus money never achieved any of the stimulus goals, what makes you think we will get more stimulus money for the option APSEs,” he wrote, using an acronym for auxiliary power supply equipment. “BART is in phase two of obtaining stimulus money (more Bombardier APSEs) and it is not going to look good if we keep reporting zero!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scolding apparently did the trick. The Bombardier executive came back with a number – the stimulus money had funded 196 work hours that quarter, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, BART reported that stimulus money for the power unit contract had funded 24,103 work hours at Bombardier, records show. That’s about 11.5 full-time jobs over a two-year period, said BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost. The project also created work for 4.83 full-time mechanics at BART, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART did receive more stimulus money for the project. After the initial grant, the funding was increased to $11.2 million in 2010, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queried about the emails, Trost said BART’s consultant “was just doing his job and just trying to get the numbers that needed to be reported to the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryanne Roberts, spokeswoman for Bombardier, wrote in an email that the company had felt “no pressure” from BART – “just some initial confusion as to what/how to report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts who have studied the $787 billion stimulus program say that in the early going, reported jobs numbers were “soft, as you can imagine,” as Robert Maitner, a Washington, D.C., consultant, put it. He studied the issue of the accuracy of stimulus jobs reporting for an academic journal, the Journal of Government Financial Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genuine confusion over how to report the jobs data mingled with the impulse to pump up the numbers for political or other concerns, Maitner said. 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The units were built at Bombardier’s plant near Pittsburgh, Pa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December 2009, LaGuardia, the BART consultant, emailed Bombardier executive Luke Mazurkiewicz.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please provide the number of direct, on-project jobs created or sustained by the ARRA funds,” LaGuardia wrote, using the acronym for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the law behind the stimulus program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At first, the Bombardier executive couldn’t help him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BT has no on-site employees hired specifically for this project,” Mazurkiewicz responded. “In fact, no jobs were created by this project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Insofar as ‘sustained’ jobs are concerned, that is a very subjective description.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“BT did not ‘sustain’ any jobs due to this project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After LaGuardia chided him, Mazurkiewicz came back with some numbers: 46 job hours for November and 150 for December.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Please indicate if this is what you are looking for?” Mazurkiewicz asked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yes it is,” LaGuardia replied.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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The Bombardier executive came back with a number – the stimulus money had funded 196 work hours that quarter, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, BART reported that stimulus money for the power unit contract had funded 24,103 work hours at Bombardier, records show. That’s about 11.5 full-time jobs over a two-year period, said BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost. The project also created work for 4.83 full-time mechanics at BART, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART did receive more stimulus money for the project. After the initial grant, the funding was increased to $11.2 million in 2010, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queried about the emails, Trost said BART’s consultant “was just doing his job and just trying to get the numbers that needed to be reported to the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryanne Roberts, spokeswoman for Bombardier, wrote in an email that the company had felt “no pressure” from BART – “just some initial confusion as to what/how to report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts who have studied the $787 billion stimulus program say that in the early going, reported jobs numbers were “soft, as you can imagine,” as Robert Maitner, a Washington, D.C., consultant, put it. He studied the issue of the accuracy of stimulus jobs reporting for an academic journal, the Journal of Government Financial Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genuine confusion over how to report the jobs data mingled with the impulse to pump up the numbers for political or other concerns, Maitner said. The process has always been “somewhat of a PR exercise,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2009, nine months into the program, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-10-223\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">study\u003c/a> by the Government Accountability Office found that stimulus jobs reports were riddled with “erroneous or questionable data.” The GAO noted thousands of exaggerated or questionable reports posted on the government’s \u003ca href=\"http://www.recovery.gov/Pages/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Recovery.gov\u003c/a> website.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To address the criticism and improve the accuracy of the numbers, in December 2009, the White House stopped asking stimulus recipients to report how many jobs they had created. Instead, they were asked to make quarterly reports of how many jobs had been paid for with stimulus funds. The change was made Dec. 18, a day after LaGuardia scolded Bombardier in the email exchange.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even with the new method, the numbers shouldn’t be taken as gospel, said Craig Jennings of the watchdog group \u003ca href=\"http://www.ombwatch.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OMB Watch\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The numbers aren’t really good enough for scientific reporting,” Jennings said. “But they do give a guideline of what’s going on.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2010 publication titled “\u003ca href=\"http://www.bart.gov/docs/RTC_2010.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Report to Congress\u003c/a>,” BART said it hoped the $92 million in stimulus funds would be only the first installment. The initial funds paid for projects such as upgrading electrical service in BART stations ($20 million), building a rail track crossover in Pleasant Hill ($13 million) and replacing the auxiliary power supply equipment on 70 BART cars ($11.2 million).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>by Lance Williams and Zusha Elinson, California Watch\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the Bay Area Rapid Transit District received $92 million in federal stimulus funds in 2009, it promised to create “thousands of jobs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But to make its numbers after the money was spent, the transit agency resorted to pressuring and cajoling, emails obtained by California Watch show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a 2009 exchange, a BART supplier received a disapproving email after he said no jobs were created with a $4.8 million stimulus grant BART used to buy auxiliary power supply equipment for transit cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The supplier, rail manufacturing firm Bombardier Transportation, simply hadn’t hired any new employees to build the units for BART, a Bombardier executive reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zero was a bad number, replied BART project’s manager.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Feds gave BART $4 million of stimulus money to purchase” power supply units, wrote Jim LaGuardia, a consultant hired by BART to manage the project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we keep saying the stimulus money never achieved any of the stimulus goals, what makes you think we will get more stimulus money for the option APSEs,” he wrote, using an acronym for auxiliary power supply equipment. “BART is in phase two of obtaining stimulus money (more Bombardier APSEs) and it is not going to look good if we keep reporting zero!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The scolding apparently did the trick. The Bombardier executive came back with a number – the stimulus money had funded 196 work hours that quarter, he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next two years, BART reported that stimulus money for the power unit contract had funded 24,103 work hours at Bombardier, records show. That’s about 11.5 full-time jobs over a two-year period, said BART spokeswoman Alicia Trost. The project also created work for 4.83 full-time mechanics at BART, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>BART did receive more stimulus money for the project. After the initial grant, the funding was increased to $11.2 million in 2010, records show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Queried about the emails, Trost said BART’s consultant “was just doing his job and just trying to get the numbers that needed to be reported to the federal government.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maryanne Roberts, spokeswoman for Bombardier, wrote in an email that the company had felt “no pressure” from BART – “just some initial confusion as to what/how to report.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Experts who have studied the $787 billion stimulus program say that in the early going, reported jobs numbers were “soft, as you can imagine,” as Robert Maitner, a Washington, D.C., consultant, put it. He studied the issue of the accuracy of stimulus jobs reporting for an academic journal, the Journal of Government Financial Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Genuine confusion over how to report the jobs data mingled with the impulse to pump up the numbers for political or other concerns, Maitner said. 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