BART’s chief offered $1 million to quit

04/14/2011
By Victoria Schlesinger

Of all the things $1 million of BART’s budget could help buy – clean seats, quieter trains, etc. – that amount will instead go to peaceably pushing out BART’s General Manager Dorothy Dugger, who officially resigned on Wednesday after months of negotiations. BART’s board of directors must still approve the resignation and its terms. [Read more - San Francisco Chronicle]

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