[RP TownTalk] Full Budget Information

[Brian Wilson]

Looks like some SHADY accounting on the Mayors part!! Thank you for taking the time to highlight this Jonathan. The constituents deserve to know how their money is being spent. 

 

> On May 20, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Jonathan Ebbeler <jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com> wrote:
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> All
>  
> Please find the full budget with all the supporting documentation here:
>  
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/xroimgxrttbm2t5/FY17BUDGET_NOSALARY.pdf?dl=0
>  
> I redacted the Administrative, Police, and Public Works salary information.  Although it is all public information, I am trying to err on the side of caution with respect to basic privacy concerns.
>  
> JWE
>  
> Some highlights:
> 1)      $1500 listed on Page 7 (Mayor and Council OOE) as Sister City Activities is the Mayor’s paid vacation down to Guatemala in June.
> 2)      $6500 for a Council retreat in addition to 13,500 for the Ocean City boondoggle?  The ‘retreat’ is a new one to the budget.    
> 3)      $26,000 listed in the same section for New Town Manager…..not quite the ‘modest’ 10% increase our elected officials continually claimed. 
> 4)      Page 16 (Financial Services) also lists out $30,000 for the town’s continued Accounting Contract.  So much for the the Town Manager and/or Finance Director taking over responsibilities.
> 5)      I am deeply concerned about Page 121 (Appropriated Surplus).  The starting point used in the calculation of what we have in the General Fund was $2,616,418 (as of 6/30/2105).  Page 13 of our FY15 audit that accounts for that number clearly reflects that the $912,118 ‘Appropriated Surplus’ used as structural deficit spending to balance FY16’s budget is NOT included.  The actual starting point listed on Page 121 of our budget should be $2,616,418 LESS $912,118 or $1,704,300 leaving a balance in the General fund of only $8,017 (with the 1.5mil or three months reserves in the rainy day reserves).  Unless I am missing here we have three months reserves and that is basically it.   
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