Shoo In

The Official Unofficial Minutes of the WL BOA
Special Board Meeting, July 22

A huge crowd of three citizens attended the joint meeting of the BOA and Audit Committee. One of the three was kind enough to provide details. Bottom line, no official vote to hire the CPA firm BKD was conducted. Apparently that will happen at the next regularly scheduled BOA meeting. There was an representative of BKD present, but she did not make a formal presentation. She did answer questions from the officials. I understand she commented she had reviewed the last audit from the Miller firm and had no negative comments. No other firms were discussed. Materials handed out at the meeting indicate communication in late June between Jerry and BKD, although at the BOA meeting on July 7th he said he could not find a firm interested in doing our audit. It is unknown if he ever asked the Miller firm. Projected cost of an audit performed by BKD, $10,000. Cost of last audit by Miller, $4,500. Odd that a conflicted board(other than Mary who is for an audit) and Mayor who seem to vacillate between needing an audit, not needing audit and the expense of an audit seem to be headed for the high end.

One member of the Audit Committee felt there wasn't any need for an audit, things seem to be in order, we have a Mayor who is a CPA and has had experience with financials. Really. I guess that is why the Audit Committee never meets...at least officially.