MASSACHUSETTS
ORGANIZATION OF STATE ENGINEERS AND SCIENTISTS
Mary J. Richards, President
Robert A. Smith, Vice president
John L. Viveiros, Secretary
Robert S. Danilecki, Treasurer
June 28, 2002
Dear
Congressman Capuano:
On behalf
of the Massachusetts Organization of State Engineers and
Scientists, MOSES, I would like to congratulate you on your
appointment to the Committee on Transportation and
Infrastructure.
MOSES
represents some 4000 professional and technical public employees
who work in several agencies of the Commonwealth, the
Metropolitan District Commission, (MDC) and the Massachusetts
Water Resources Authority, (MWRA) in areas which include
environmental protection, transportation, public health,
forensic science, occupational health and safety, wage
enforcement.
MOSES has
joined together with a coalition of transportation unions and
associations across the country to bring to the attention of
Congress issues associated with the lack of proper oversight on
federally funded transportation projects. Our
group, the National Association of State Highway Transportation
Unions, NASHTU, represents some twenty-eight unions and
associations in twenty-one states and the District of Columbia
representing 100,000 public employees in transportation.
MOSES
joined this group in order to address the lack of proper
oversight of moneys appropriated to the states that are
contracting out work formerly performed by public employees to
private engineering and design consultant firms. Our
members are concerned about cost overruns and the lack of
oversight on construction projects when private companies do
government work without adequate review and supervision.
Our members feel that certain "privatization initiatives" have
actually jeopardized the quality of highway work funded by the
federal government and may have also compromised the safety of
the traveling public. I have enclosed NASHTU’s position paper,
Highway Robbery and other information on our Third
Annual conference, which was held in Washington, D.C. in May of
this year.
I would
like to schedule a meeting soon to discuss some of the issues
that concern our group. I will contact your office in the
near future to arrange a meeting. Once again, congratulations,
on your new assignment and please call if we can be of any
assistance to you with transportation matters or with
constituent matters in any of the areas where our workers have
expertise.
Very truly
yours,
Mary J.
Richards, President
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