{"id":3881,"date":"2010-03-28T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=3881"},"modified":"2010-03-28T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T03:31:13","slug":"repost-consultants-getting-722m-from-city-for-doomed-citytime-computer-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/28\/repost-consultants-getting-722m-from-city-for-doomed-citytime-computer-project\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost :: &#039;Consultants&#039; getting $722M from city for doomed CityTime computer project"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The city is paying some 230 &#8220;consultants&#8221; an average salary of $400,000 a year for a computer project that is seven years behind schedule and vastly over budget.<br \/>\nThe payments continue despite Mayor Bloomberg&amp;apos;s admission the computerized timekeeping and payroll system &#8211; called CityTime &#8211; is &#8220;a disaster.&#8221;<br \/>\nEleven CityTime consultants rake in more than $600,000 annually, with three of them making as much as $676,000, city records obtained under a Freedom of Information request show.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/2010\/03\/26\/2010-03-26_city_pours_722m_down_consulting_contracts_black_hole.html\">&#8216;Consultants&#8217; getting $722M from city for doomed CityTime computer project<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city is paying some 230 &#8220;consultants&#8221; an average salary of $400,000 a year for a computer project that is seven years behind schedule and vastly over budget. The payments continue despite Mayor Bloomberg&amp;apos;s admission the computerized timekeeping and payroll system &#8211; called CityTime &#8211; is &#8220;a disaster.&#8221; Eleven CityTime consultants rake in more than &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/28\/repost-consultants-getting-722m-from-city-for-doomed-citytime-computer-project\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost :: &#039;Consultants&#039; getting $722M from city for doomed CityTime computer project&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}