self-serving

Perhaps the state tax authorities will do the pool audit that is so badly needed. They ARE looking for other sources of revenue to make up for the HUGE deficits. Are the ones doing the current city audit the same ones that have done it in the past? and found NO problems? NONE at the pool? Can it be that city officials consistently lowball their revenue estimates with ridiculously low numbers so that, at the end of the year, when revenues are found to be higher, they can congratulate themselves and ask for another raise? Is that POSSIBLE??? THAT would be totally self-serving, dishonest, and manipulative, right? Illegal?