Producers: Kathleen Johnston & Gerry Lanosga;
[AI-Generated Summary] This Channel 13 Eyewitness News broadcast highlights a looming midnight state House deadline where a final budget agreement is expected to exclude funding for full-day kindergarten, a omission that Governor Frank O'Bannon and early childhood education advocates heavily criticize as political maneuvering. Additionally, the broadcast features a two-part investigative report by Roger Harvey revealing significant mismanagement within the city's Public Works Department. The investigation exposes more than $1.2 million in vehicle repair costs over four years due to driver neglect and misuse—which administrators later claimed was an inflated figure—alongside instances of drivers physically threatening mechanics. Furthermore, the report details an additional $1.2 million accumulated since 1995 from accidents involving public works trucks, uncovering a severe lack of driver accountability, systemic cover-ups by supervisors classifying preventable accidents as non-preventable, a near-total halt in employee discipline, and state auditor concerns regarding the validity of the city's commercial driver's license testing.
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