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NYC Drops $722M On CityTime Attendance System

Posted by Soulskill on from the your-tax-dollars-at-work dept.

theodp writes "New York City is reportedly paying 230 consultants an average annual salary of $400K for a computer project that is seven years behind schedule and vastly over budget. The payments continue despite Mayor Bloomberg's admission that the computerized timekeeping and payroll system — dubbed CityTime — is 'a disaster.' Eleven CityTime consultants rake in more than $600K annually, with three of them making as much as $676,000. The 40 highest-paid people on the project bill taxpayers at least $500K a year. Some of the consultants have been working at these rates for as long as a decade."

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  1. Re:Government Project Cost Overruns? by Kral_Blbec · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I have a friend who was a teacher in California for a year.

    Teacher unions are evil. End of story.

    And yet many of the same people who will cry foul over this will be first in line telling the government it is morally obligated to provide X social program or prop up Y industry "for the good of the country."

    You do know what party controls New York, right?