Dive Brief:

• Some California lawmakers have called for more oversight of the state's green jobs initiative after an Associated Press investigation found only a small percentage of expected jobs had been created.
• The initiative, passed by voters three years ago, closed a tax loophole that has generated more than $590 million. Schools get half of that money for clean energy projects, and the AP found more than half of the $297 million given to schools so far has gone to energy auditors and consultants.
• The AP also found that the board created to oversee the funds has never met.

Dive Insight:

When California's legislature decided to divide up the money by giving half to schools, it estimated more than 11,000 jobs would be generated each year. But only 1,700 in total have been created in three years, the AP reported.

While energy auditors and consultants have been the big beneficiaries, supporters of the initiative say that was necessary to set up what is to come -- a potentially massive wave of retrofitting projects for schools.

A bipartisan group of legislators has raised concerns about where the money is going. "We should hold some oversight hearings to see how the money is being spent, where it is being spent and seeing if Prop. 39 is fulfilling the promise that it said it would," Assemblyman Henry Perea, D-Fresno, told the AP.