Overtime up for Montgomery's transportation workers

Montgomery County officials are looking into why the Department of Transportation had a nearly 10 percent climb in overtime during the last fiscal year.

The county paid nearly $900,000 more in overtime to the DOT, for a total of $7.9 million in overtime in fiscal 2009, according to county data. The department, which employs about 1,400 people, used 228,000 hours of overtime during the last fiscal year, up about 20,000 hours from the year before.