A Metro vote on the CRC is Thursday. There is nothing normal or acceptable about the condition of accounting with the CRC. And the concern is not only about the $35,000.00/month rent for the CRC. CRC officials can’t even produce a financial statement or reasonable facsimile to account for the approximately $150,000,000.00 of taxpayer funds it has already spent. Please see the report from the forensic accountant below.
Here’s a memo to members of Metro:
If any of you vote to proceed with the CRC with this kind of scandal emerging then you are certainly part of the scandal.
It matters not whether it is by gross negligence, fiduciary irresponsibility, incompetence, an ideologically driven agenda or conflict of interest.
Any public official who, by their vote, condones this abhorrent handling of tax dollars has lost both their integrity and credibility.
The media may have ignored their responsibility but elected public officials do not have the option to ignore their fiduciary responsibilities.
Please halt this travesty until a full investigation can identify exactly where the $150 million went and what taxpayers got for their money.
David Madore of NoTolls.com has ponied up the money to pay for a forensic accountant, a former government auditor, to take a look at the books. Here’s Victoria Taft’s interview the other day with Tiffany Couch. Couch’s assessment is just underway but take a look at her power point presentation here.
Tell ’em where you saw it. Http://www.victoriataft.com