Show 1 1 I r SED AUDIT t CITY fUNDS USES CLASH missioner Green Opi Op- Op i J 5 S Keddington Over i If of Special I in His Charge ling upon the recommendation of missioner Herman H. H Green head and affairs department today rejected all thus far by accounting I Jon ifon the proposed audit of the of the city for 1921 Green recommended not ot the approval of the tho commis- commis for fop the city recorder to advertise cw bids on two propositions one lIthe audit of the general funds the other the audit of the special to the last complete audit f understood to have been 1912 I e Action action follows a sharp differ I In opinion between en Commissioner jand and City Auditor Alvin KedI Ked Ked- I Eon iOn over the Pr proposed posed audit of of I of the city Auditor Ington recommended the audit in letter to the city commission h w s referred to the finance deCent de- de Cent ent for consideration feel that the audit should be so that the records b ber clear up to the time that I 1 I Auditor Keddington said Bald I bould bo be made through my office ende lt of the city commissioners 1 authorized the expenditures In various yarl us accounts to Insure that ro gh audit be made Y hel 1 auditor has no more to do I the special auditing of funds ariy other citizen I n d In discussing the au- au I au-I Ir s letter IE RULE SHOULD A APPLY PLY his first statement Keddington an audit of the general the basis of competitive bids r accounting firms is and proper why should not the rule apply to the special funds the past have been subject muth trouble and grief An of special funds on this basis d bIn not and could not be InterI Inter Inter- with nor the results influenced I ny one of ot the city the city auditor incomplete audit of special funds City has been made since or 1912 according to city em- em Ls who have been in the service this situation and to be that the accounts were In order nhe h-e h took office January 1 1922 tor tori Keddington wrote his letter commission Commissioner ill at the time the letter letterI l hed edthe the commission but upon his I nJ o work he declared that he been In favor tavor of an audit of the for several months AUDIT ON I th present time the receiving bids from various Edited accounting firms for the of the general funds of the for The general funds must I every year in accordance statute on the subject n annual audit of special funds I required It Is the special funds I always causes the grief In ts to various account account- I Iwho who are familiar with auditing co nty and state funds Green and declare that they want audit of the special funds but n insists that the audit should by the commissioners and dl declares that the law luw shim the authority to supervise Island that is why his position created |