The transportation agency failed to perform a basic accounting function.
By Nigel Jaquiss
Oregon Journalism Project
Agency presentations to legislative committees are typically routine affairs in which senior managers present unremarkable information to lawmakers whose committees have policy or budgetary oversight of them.
The resentation by the Oregon Department of Transportation on Feb. 24 to the Joint Committee on Transportation, however, was anything but routine, leaving one lawmaker sputtering in frustration.
About one…