By: Diane Benjamin The financial statements from the year that ended June 30, 2018 are still not on the website. No audits are posted under Financial Information. What are they hiding? https://www.connect-transit.com/about/financial_information.asp The empty buses came REALLY close to losing $1,000,000 in January: PDF page 7 https://www.connect-transit.com/documents/Meetings/Packets/RevisedFebruary%2026,%202019%20Board%20Packet.pdf The money borrowed from capital funds […]
This is another story where Hales claims the Coliseum had CLEAN audits: http://ilnews.org/9870/financial-probe-of-coliseums-former-manager-may-involve-concession-money/ They weren’t clean, concessions were NEVER audited, and Hales refused to protect taxpayer money. _____________________________________________________ By: Diane Benjamin According to this September 12th Pantagraph article, City Manager David Hales claims the Coliseum audits have always received a clean opinion: http://www.pantagraph.com/news/local/government-and-politics/state-police-city-investigating-coliseum-operations/article_6e1ae325-da35-5573-845a-454e9b4c8031.html David Hales […]
By: Diane Benjamin Tonight the Normal Town Council will get a presentation on their newly released financial statements. Included in the presentation is all correspondence from the auditor. Here is the difference between Normal and Bloomington: I used to get the same information from Bloomington – last year they denied my FOIA. If you don’t […]
By: Diane Benjamin See this document – page 16 – 26 2015 Audit Communication The title: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IMPROVEMENTS CONTROL DEFICIENCIES This report is from the City of Bloomington’s auditors. Every other year I have reported on these “Control Deficiencies”, many are reported year after year after year with nothing being done to fix the […]
By: Diane Benjamin The City of Bloomington now believes “Citizens don’t have a right to know”. The local media is told what to report and they dutifully comply. Here’s the latest example: I’ve written before about deficiencies in Internal Controls at the City. In English – the Auditors found the City isn’t doing enough to […]
By: Diane Benjamin Tonight the City of Bloomington is holding an Executive Session, another one of their secret meetings. Under the Open Meetings Act, they cited this section as the reason for the meeting: (29) Meetings between internal or external auditors and governmental audit committees, finance committees, and their equivalents, when the discussion involves […]
