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Lilpup
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Post Number: 3656
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:52 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

aside from the money the state is withholding:

"unauthorized accounts"
"off balance sheet accounts"
"purchase orders one cent below threshold requiring approval"
"contracts with missing approvals and documentation"
"both Auditor General staff as well as KPMG staff did not have access to various records in a timely manner"

Auditors: City lax on fiscal controls

if the Auditor General does not have timely access to records he can't do his job
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Lefty2
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:20 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

My mom said the city was run by crooks back in the 70's. Nothing has changed.

The city does not have enough people to run the dept. properly, the ones that are left probably couldn't get jobs at a CPA firm or corporation.
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Gnome
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 12:09 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

We could seriously be facing total State take-over. Removing the Mayor, Receivership, ... jeeze.

Jenny is looking at some hard choices.
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Andylinn
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 12:20 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

the problem with a state takeover is that it could be suicide for an incumbent governor. that's not the case for granholm... she is term limited... there is a good chance the state takes over in the next couple of years. god help us.
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Gnome
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 1:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

True Andy, Granholm is term-limited but she is a politician, a Democratic politcian; and any such State takeover would not be good for the Democratic Party.

A State Receivership and takeover of our books would be great for Detroit, but the citizens would hate it. Resist it. Fight it. The full racial distrust that bubbles under the surface would erupt all over the place. There already is a feeling that moving up this years Democratic Primary was a thinly veiled power grab by Hillary, Jenny and Debbie Dingell to steal the Primary from Obama. If Jenny sends in the bean counters, watch out we're in for a rough ride.

You're right Andy, god help us, becuase no one else is going to.
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Lilpup
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:02 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

gee, maybe I should go for a job in the Finance Department and just help myself instead of humping it out in the private sector
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Gnome
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Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:16 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

from the sound of things, there's quite a bit of humping going on in the Pubic Sector
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Living_in_the_d
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Registered: 01-2008
Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:35 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Yeah, The state has it share of its own problems it's made. They won't be doing anything to or with the "D" anytime soon.
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Paulmcall
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Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:19 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Maybe the politicians will move out of town. With no money left to steal, they'll be out of a job.

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