The Records

Community Transit produced every document on this page. Nothing here is a summary, a characterization, or a reconstruction. It is their paper, with their dates on it.

The agency does not publish records requests to the public, so none of this can be looked up on their portal. That is why it is here.

Exhibit 01

The Contract

Human Resources told the IT manager in writing that she could not touch her husband's contracts. Two years later he signed a form swearing there was no conflict. The payments run to $1,340,317.80.

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Exhibit 02

The Threshold

The CEO could award up to $150,000 a year without the Board. The contract was awarded at $120,000. Forty-nine days later the agency asked the Board to raise the ceiling to $300,000.

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In preparation

The phone that does not exist — request 25-123 and 26-35
The retention story that kept changing — requests 25-123, 25-259, 26-56
Not the contracts, his name — the email rule, request 25-123
Sound Transit and Community Transit, same employee, compared