Thursday, December 18, 2008

pool audit needed

The Council sets the rental fee schedule for all of the city facilties- swimming pool $60 an hour, gym $200 for 4 hours, pool $30 an hour for nonprofits, etc. When and where did the Council authorize the City Manager to charge whatever he wanted? Was the Council aware that we were only charging $200 a month for swim team practice, and hadnt collected THAT in years? If they didnt know that, WHY didnt they? They ARE supposed to supervise and oversee the City Manager, right? Did the Council know that there was poor documentation and few controls regarding admissions at the pool? The Asst. City Manager told Mr Dotson that there was NO way of knowing exactly what revenues were taken in at the pool! Why wasnt THAT a hint to them that something was fishy there? After over FORTY YEARS of having a pool, we have NO idea or system in place to tell us how much revenues we take in ???? Incredible! Ridiculous! The City Manager tells a resident he has NO idea how the lump sum revenue numbers listed in the budget were derived? NO DETAILS!?nothing itemized? Yet at the same meeting he pulls out a quarterly report that he says has ALL the details, and that he follows VERY closely! It seems he was saying that those details were ONLY for his eyes, because he didnt offer to share them with the resident or anybody else! It made NO sense- "I dont have those details", on one hand, and then pulls those very details out in a quarterly report and shows them briefly to the inquiring residents! Were the residents to believe what he SAID? or what he showed us? The details either exist, or they DONT! WHICH is it?

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