The Division of Local Services;
In a letter from that state agency, dated May 23, 2017 and just received by the Advisory Committee has some interesting items within it. The agency will also be coming to Templeton to meet with some officials. One item in it has "In FY2013, the town did not renew the accountant's contract" First of all, the former Templeton outside vender for accounting, CPA Scott Sawyer resigned, effective in June 2012. The next accountant hired as a town employee also submitted their resignation. In effect, they left but it was not due to the town not renewing anything.
"The Bureau of Accounts had requested additional supporting documentation from the town accountant for the purpose of certifying FY2016 free cash. Since this was not received, FY2016 free cash was not available for appropriation at the May 13, 2017 annual town meeting."
There are deficits related to the school project and there is a schedule of sorts and one item states " The remaining $211,565.00 of the deficit should be raised from free cash, or if not available, from FY2018 budget cuts."
Interesting with there already being a $100,000.00 shortfall built into the FY2018 budget.
posted by Jeff Bennett
It will be a good time to ask the DOR rep., why she did not watch out for our town ? She was aware of the mess we were in, seeing she was Scott Sawyers "bff". How did she miss the fact that we had not had our audits done for years? Let's see her answer that ! Bev.
ReplyDeleteI am afraid for my town. It appears very few other people are, and I guess it is a good thing the DOR is ! What good does having a bunch of policies do us, when our BOS will not follow them ? How can we save a dime if every cend is spent. Bev.
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