Show A MUNICIPAL SCANDAL After months of what has amounted to a municipal scandal the special pedal t auditors have hae concluded that the end of their rope ropo has been reached Accordingly Ae they the announce their In Intention intention to close jip rip their th lr work and de depart depart depart part Close to OOOO will be required r to tn meet their bills while better ser service service vice could easily casH have been secured for or The city elty has hasp sJ been paying expert rates for men who busied themselves rop copying ing office records one man read reading inS ing the other transcribing a task that was unnecessary and could have been done one by any office boy If it had been necessary Months of time at exorbitant sala salaries salaries ries ri s have hae been spent in checking re records records cords that had no bearing on the problems problems rob lems covered by b a real re l audit and money mone has been squandered on special forms forma and stationery which answered no purpose but to enrich the stationers and auditors The he whole Job 8 a fla fin flagrant flagrant grant ease case t of almost almost criminal dissipation dissipation dissipation tion of funds under circumstances which offer otTer no excuse of any an kind After fourteen months of work and the th expenditure of about the public is Ss still left in ignorance of the financial condition although the primary purpose of the audit was sup supposed supposed posed to be the installation of an ac re accounting accounting recounting counting which would Ivo just sues information dally daily dall to the public and to the city officials The only apparent result of this 20 job is IR a statement of the as assets assets sets lets anti and ant liabilities which carefully e conceals con ealR the ti truth it figures of or outstanding indebtedness It In Includes Includes includes as assets a sets items which should have been en charged ch off offIt offIt It does not include as a liability themore the themore more mOTe than due for assessments collected In excess of or orthe the cost of property improvements Nothing Is 18 said about the depletion of or bond funds fund nothing of the over oyer overdrafts overdrafts drafts which have haye to be met out of this years tax levy le nothing of ot the share thare of Improvements due and an annot not paid Practically everything of or oral real al import in an audit is omitted and much of the information given gien is in inaccurate inaccurate accurate and misleading For this work the city has been pay paying pa paying ing as much as 40 a day da to some men and from that maximum down to no 10 and 5 a n day for services rendered Tendered by b men who got In some cases less Jess than half haJ what the city paid for tor their time The special sp auditing Job is an exam example example example of all aU that Is obnoxious and scan scandalous scandalous scandalous dalous in public administration |