There is agreement that hiring within the neighborhood is a good idea, but no one monitors hiring to ensure that it happens.
He said his group monitored hiring by citrus growers, who are required to offer jobs to Americans before they can turn to the H-2A program for temporary foreign laborers.
Instead, the board established a "strike team" of various county agencies — and the union — to temporarily monitor hiring.
But monitors hired by AT&T through a vendor also cut two lines from a song to the tune of "Another Brick in the Wall" by Pink Floyd.
The inquiry began after suspicious activity was uncovered by a private integrity monitor hired by the Port Authority to examine the practices of contractors at the Trade Center site.
In some places, election workers were still struggling with voter lists four hours later, and with mollifying so-called monitors hired by political parties to oversee the vote.
When a monitor hired by Fisons asked to see the patient's medical chart, Ms. Carlon approached Delfina Hernandez, a more senior employee, and asked what to do.
The investigation began after Thacher Associates, a construction monitor hired by the Yankees and the Port Authority, uncovered irregularities in the concrete testing at Yankee Stadium and at ground zero, law enforcement officials and others briefed on the inquiries have said.
The investigation began about five months ago as a result of irregularities uncovered by monitors hired by the Yankees and by the Port Authority, as well as by the authority's own engineers, according to law enforcement officials and people involved in both projects.
That investigation, which is continuing and has expanded to focus on more than half a dozen other companies and several concrete suppliers, began when an independent construction monitor hired by the Yankees to ensure the integrity of the work at the team's new stadium uncovered irregularities in the testing.
