High Placed Sources @ the City of Ridgecrest confirm that there was a cover up at the highest levels during the final audit of the FY 2007-08 books. The Administrative Services Department Staff argued with the Auditors but were told "...it was a Management decision..." as to include the findings of the Preliminary Audit.
Obviously the "Management" didn't seem to think that it was worthy of such comment. Hypothetically, could it be that one of the issues involved both the Public Works Director and the City Manager who was the Assistant City Manager at the time?
We @ RidgeBlogger have discovered that some of the issues include the following:
- Ignoring a $1 million Cash Deficit in the Capital Projects Fund @ July 2007. There is a memo that contains the PW Director handwriting that verifies these facts. Authored by the former Finance Director, counter signed by the PW Director and forwarded to the City Manager.
- Failure to Reimburse Capital Projects in a Timely Fashion. Audit Findings in the prior Audit.
- Engineering Staff failed to charge any staff time to the Capital Projects (IOW the General Fund Subsidized Federal Projects for Reimbursable Projects 100% for staff time)
- Public Works Staff consitently failed to follow City budget and procurement policies on major projects
- Public Works Director Contractor was allegedly increased illegally
- and more
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