Engineer W Public Agency Cost Allocation Policy Integrity Preservation Shadyvale
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Engineer_W_Public_Agency_Cost_Allocation_Policy_Integrity_Preservation_Shadyvale
Properties
Instance of
PublicAgencyCost-AllocationPolicyIntegrityPreservationObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PublicAgencyCost-AllocationPolicyIntegrityPreservationObligation
Case context
Engineer W directed Engineer Intern D to revise a policy-compliant design to incorporate the old Shadyvale water main, which would have the effect of artificially triggering the DOT's unavoidable utility conflict policy and diverting $700,000 of public DOT funds to benefit the municipality.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.93
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer W
Obligation statement
Engineer W was obligated to preserve the integrity of the DOT's explicit cost-allocation policy — requiring that only unavoidable utility conflicts be funded as part of highway projects — by refraining from directing Engineer Intern D to redesign the project to artificially create an 'unavoidable' conflict with the old Shadyvale water main in order to shift approximately $700,000 of costs from Shadyvale to the DOT.
Temporal scope
Throughout the Shadyvale highway reconstruction project design phase
Relationships
defeasibleUnder
Regulatory Compliance State — DOT Cost-Allocation Policy
Source Evidence
Source text
Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer.
Text references
Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer.
If Engineer Intern D decides to cooperate with Engineer W, it is likely that no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale.
secretly diverting $700,000 of state DOT funds is not an ethical solution.
TTL
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case58:Engineer_W_Public_Agency_Cost_Allocation_Policy_Integrity_Preservation_Shadyvale a proeth:PublicAgencyCost-AllocationPolicyIntegrityPreservationObligation,
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rdfs:label "Engineer W Public Agency Cost Allocation Policy Integrity Preservation Shadyvale" ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder <http://proethica.org/ontology/case/58#Regulatory_Compliance_State_—_DOT_Cost-Allocation_Policy> ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer W directed Engineer Intern D to revise a policy-compliant design to incorporate the old Shadyvale water main, which would have the effect of artificially triggering the DOT's unavoidable utility conflict policy and diverting $700,000 of public DOT funds to benefit the municipality." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.93" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case58:Non-Subordination_of_Public_Safety_Obligation_Violated_By_Engineer_W_Indirect_Directive ;
proeth:discoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "58" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer W" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Public Agency Cost-Allocation Policy Integrity Preservation Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer W was obligated to preserve the integrity of the DOT's explicit cost-allocation policy — requiring that only unavoidable utility conflicts be funded as part of highway projects — by refraining from directing Engineer Intern D to redesign the project to artificially create an 'unavoidable' conflict with the old Shadyvale water main in order to shift approximately $700,000 of costs from Shadyvale to the DOT." ;
proeth:sourcetext "Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer." ;
proeth:temporalscope "Throughout the Shadyvale highway reconstruction project design phase" ;
proeth:textreferences "Engineer W's willingness to overlook DOT policy is inconsistent with Canon 4, the engineer's obligation to act as faithful agent or trustee of one's employer.",
"If Engineer Intern D decides to cooperate with Engineer W, it is likely that no one else would ever know that $700,000 of DOT money had been diverted for the benefit of Shadyvale.",
"secretly diverting $700,000 of state DOT funds is not an ethical solution." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 58 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-02-25T22:07:12.214025"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 58 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
58
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
First case
58
Generated
2026-02-25T21:58:16.305408+00:00
Attributed to
Case 58 Extraction
Generated
2026-02-25T22:07:12.214025
Generated by
ProEthica Case 58 Extraction