City Hires Accounting Firm to Conduct PW Probe

[Double A]

quote:Originally posted by MichaelBates

quote:Originally posted by swake

I think it should be pointed out that the city auditor is not an employee of Kathy Taylor, that position is directly elected and has been held by one man for decades.

You want to blame the mayor, but where is the city auditor in all of this?

That's the topic of my column this week, out Wednesday.

The auditor has 10 people working for him, of whom 9 work directly on audits. They operate on under a million dollars a year, trying to keep an eye on hundreds of millions of dollars. They seem to be stretched to the limit. I'm impressed with what they accomplish with their limited resources.

Does the Mayor/Council control the Auditor's budget? Just curious.

[Rico]

Originally posted by Conan 71.

"What? No shout-out to Bobby Lorton this week?

"City Auditor" is a somewhat of a nebulous job title, considering there are many aspects of city government which can be audited.

The nature of Martinez' corruption would be pretty hard to detect other than taking a direct look at with whom that department was doing business with and the frequency they were doing it. Was there enough repeat business or appearance of collusion to raise a red flag. If there was no protocol set up for that specific purpose, who should have known what to look for?"



"Albert was the only one who could have pulled it off the way that it was" because of his particular job and his knowledge of what would send up red flags, Hardt said.

[MDepr2007]

quote:Originally posted by Double A

quote:Originally posted by MDepr2007

One is still there but hopefully Martinson will be out voted this go around.

Gomez and Patrick, too.

Nope, it was before their term...