To resolve conflicts between federal law that protected bargaining rights, and Texas law that forbids public entities from engaging in collective bargaining Capital Metro created a legally separate entity called Star Tran Inc. This is essentially a sham organization that does not have its own money, or offices, or any property whatsoever.
What Star Tran does have is some extremely well paid Directors that alternate between being their own kings in pretend Star Tran board meetings, and then acting like puppets at the whim and fancies of the GM and executives of Capital Metro. As any common sense person can see there are lots of problems with this, like no one is sure who is in charge of what or why, and there is replication of very high paid positions etc. It also happens to violate Texas Code about competitive bidding for contracts with public entities, and yes, Capital Metro is surely a public entity, actually a political subdivision of the State of Texas. (Although Capital Metro likes to pretend that not only are they above State Law but Federal Laws as well when it comes to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. But we will get to that later.)
More to come about how CMTA has failed to follow regulations for competitive bidding and performance based contracting since 1990, and we will track just how pathetically this arrangement has worked out for the past two decades.
What Star Tran does have is some extremely well paid Directors that alternate between being their own kings in pretend Star Tran board meetings, and then acting like puppets at the whim and fancies of the GM and executives of Capital Metro. As any common sense person can see there are lots of problems with this, like no one is sure who is in charge of what or why, and there is replication of very high paid positions etc. It also happens to violate Texas Code about competitive bidding for contracts with public entities, and yes, Capital Metro is surely a public entity, actually a political subdivision of the State of Texas. (Although Capital Metro likes to pretend that not only are they above State Law but Federal Laws as well when it comes to the Occupational Health and Safety Administration. But we will get to that later.)
More to come about how CMTA has failed to follow regulations for competitive bidding and performance based contracting since 1990, and we will track just how pathetically this arrangement has worked out for the past two decades.
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