The long awaited audit of Water District 14 has been delivered to town officials for review. Procedurally, the town board has 30 days to respond to the criticisms and or recommendations after which it will be made available to the public.
A session with town officials and State auditors will occur on Friday which is a review of the document. Frankly, everyone in town should hope that the State Comptroller can make sense of the mess which permitted such gross overspending in the district without appropriate oversight by town officials and those in the Building Department who administered the contract and approved the spending without legal input, appropriate oversight or concern for laws which established a spending cap referred to as "borrowing authority".
We all know what happened when efforts were made to restructure the Building Department. Charges of criminal acts were leveled by one dismissed employee at town board members. The Supervisor deserted the restructuring efforts and demanded that dismissed employees be reinstated. Efforts to place a department supervisor appointed by the board and not apart of the newly formed union were thwarted by Evers with the help of his allies in the county civil service commission. A professional, state licensed town engineer was appointed by the board only to be summarily dismissed by the Supervisor a week later after civil service issued an outrageous ruling that he was unqualified according to their 30 year old out dated job description which utterly failed to state what type of college degree was required to be certified as a town engineer. A court ruling later incredibly affirmed the county’s right to require a 4 year engineering degree without apparently realizing that the county’s job description did not list such a requirement and in fact neglected to state whether a two, a four year degree or even a Master’s Degree was required for the position, instead stating only that a “degree” was required or equivalent experience. It was a political hatchet job from beginning to end with Evers pulling the strings.
A session with town officials and State auditors will occur on Friday which is a review of the document. Frankly, everyone in town should hope that the State Comptroller can make sense of the mess which permitted such gross overspending in the district without appropriate oversight by town officials and those in the Building Department who administered the contract and approved the spending without legal input, appropriate oversight or concern for laws which established a spending cap referred to as "borrowing authority".
We all know what happened when efforts were made to restructure the Building Department. Charges of criminal acts were leveled by one dismissed employee at town board members. The Supervisor deserted the restructuring efforts and demanded that dismissed employees be reinstated. Efforts to place a department supervisor appointed by the board and not apart of the newly formed union were thwarted by Evers with the help of his allies in the county civil service commission. A professional, state licensed town engineer was appointed by the board only to be summarily dismissed by the Supervisor a week later after civil service issued an outrageous ruling that he was unqualified according to their 30 year old out dated job description which utterly failed to state what type of college degree was required to be certified as a town engineer. A court ruling later incredibly affirmed the county’s right to require a 4 year engineering degree without apparently realizing that the county’s job description did not list such a requirement and in fact neglected to state whether a two, a four year degree or even a Master’s Degree was required for the position, instead stating only that a “degree” was required or equivalent experience. It was a political hatchet job from beginning to end with Evers pulling the strings.
So here we are a year after the audit that Evers and Kern voted against was requested and the same folks are running the show, administering the stalled contract and awaiting the outcome of the State audit. It should be quite a show.
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