BART's embattled Inspector General Harriet Richardson will retire from her position next week, officials with the transit agency said Tuesday, months ahead of the end of her term in August.
Richardson informed the nine members of the BART Board of Directors in an email Friday that she would not serve out the rest of her term as the agency's top watchdog.
Richardson declined to point to any specific reason for her early retirement, instead suggesting that the civil grand jury report and other publicly reported spats between the OIG and BART management provided sufficient evidence. Voters across the Bay Area created the Office of the Inspector General in 2018 when they approved Bay Area Regional Measure 3, which reserves $1 million in toll revenue each year to fund the OIG and ensure that BART is efficiently and effectively spending money.
"Ms. Richardson carried out her work even when the BART Board and management were determined to undermine her investigations," Glazer said Tuesday."They repeatedly refused to provide her office with the full power and authority that she requested to do her job."
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