Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3656 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 9:52 am: | |
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 |
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2
Post Number: 1321 Registered: 07-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 11:20 am: | |
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. |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 832 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 12:09 pm: | |
We could seriously be facing total State take-over. Removing the Mayor, Receivership, ... jeeze. Jenny is looking at some hard choices. |
Andylinn Member Username: Andylinn
Post Number: 752 Registered: 04-2006
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 12:20 pm: | |
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. |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 833 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 1:18 pm: | |
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. |
Lilpup Member Username: Lilpup
Post Number: 3658 Registered: 06-2004
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:02 pm: | |
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 |
Gnome Member Username: Gnome
Post Number: 834 Registered: 08-2007
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:16 pm: | |
from the sound of things, there's quite a bit of humping going on in the Pubic Sector |
Living_in_the_d Member Username: Living_in_the_d
Post Number: 109 Registered: 01-2008
| Posted on Saturday, March 01, 2008 - 2:35 pm: | |
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. |
Paulmcall Member Username: Paulmcall
Post Number: 671 Registered: 05-2004
| Posted on Tuesday, March 04, 2008 - 1:19 pm: | |
Maybe the politicians will move out of town. With no money left to steal, they'll be out of a job. |