It's not tax payer money, jackkay dear. It's ratepayer money. The utilities are required to cover their expenses and pay taxes just like any other business.

City of Seattle departments rarely implement the outside recommendations gleaned from the work of independent investigators. I worked in one City department that commissioned some investigators to interview us as employees to discover what our biggest complaints and concerns about management and how human rights/sex discrimination issues were handled and we told them what needed to happen, that we the employees actually needed to be respected on the job and taken seriously and not just paid lip service by management.

These issues at Light and at several other City utilities as well, the continuous and unmitigated sex discrimination and harassment, have never been taken seriously enough by City management. They say they take these issues seriously but if that is really true then why have these issues been going on daily for over 40 years then? The only times employees are taken seriously when they report sex discrimination and harassment and retaliation is when they file civil suits. Then and only then do those harassed employees ever get full protection and recompense. Until civil suits are filed then the City departmental managers say one thing but do another. There is ample evidence that points to that, if you actually investigate this matter fully with City employees themselves and guarantee them anonymity. I know because I was a tradeswoman at the City in several departments for ten years.