<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br>On May 20, 2016, at 9:49 PM, Jonathan Ebbeler <<a href="mailto:jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com">jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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<p class="MsoNormal">All<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please find the full budget with all the supporting documentation here:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/xroimgxrttbm2t5/FY17BUDGET_NOSALARY.pdf?dl=0">https://www.dropbox.com/s/xroimgxrttbm2t5/FY17BUDGET_NOSALARY.pdf?dl=0</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">JWE<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Some highlights:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->$1500 listed on Page 7 (Mayor and Council OOE) as Sister City Activities is the Mayor’s paid vacation down to Guatemala in June.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->$6500 for a Council retreat in addition to 13,500 for the Ocean City boondoggle? The ‘retreat’ is a new one to the budget. <o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->$26,000 listed in the same section for New Town Manager…..not quite the ‘modest’ 10% increase our elected officials continually claimed.
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->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.<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->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. <o:p></o:p></p>
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