By:  Diane Benjamin

The information below was obtained through by the Freedom of Information Act.  The Central Illinois Regional Airport auditors released this information in their report for the year ended 4/30/15.

Source:  BNAA – FINAL – Audit Report – 8.20.2015

The airport doesn’t rely on taxes and subsidies nearly as much as Connect Transit (http://blnnews.com/2015/12/17/you-are-being-robbed/), but CIRA is another example of “If we build it they will come” or if they don’t come – we’ve got the taxpayers.  The chart below shows not only a decrease in Revenue for 2015, but Operations provides less than half of the Revenue (2.1% + 42.4%).  The rest you pay for.

I’ve mentioned before that audits are NOT intended to detect fraud. These two notes were included by the Auditors in their report:

Note the last line above.

Obviously these types of government audits can’t be used to say fraud, theft, or other malfeasance doesn’t exists.

More coming up!

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