Audit is an ethics and cost saving function of the State of CA
The Daily Journal (The Peninsula's homepage), The Associated Press, Juliet Williams, 12/12/12. "State auditor brings fraud, waste to light."
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| Irregularities cost taxpayers trust and money |
In her annual whistleblower report, state Auditor Elaine Howle said her office received 7,238 reports of improper activity from April 2011 through the end of June 2012 and has opened investigations into nearly 1,500 cases from that time and before. The state’s whistleblower act authorizes her office to investigate improper and illegal government activity that is wasteful or involves gross misconduct, incompetence or inefficiency.
In the biggest case cited this year, Los Angeles employees of the Franchise Tax Board and secretary of state’s office collected thousands of dollars in payments from a courier in exchange for supplying him with hundreds of official state letters for his clients without charging the $15 to $20 per letter fees, the report said. All three were convicted of bribery and ordered by the Los Angeles County Superior Court to pay more than $227,000 in restitution for the ruse that occurred from at least 2007 to 2009." Read Article.
Reference Agency - California State Auditor, Bureau of State Audits, "Whistleblower protections." Hotline summary.
Posted by Kathy Meeh
23 comments:
Pacifica, needs an audit. The city also needs house to be cleaned.
Now there's something I'll pay a $20,000 consultant to look into.
How bout a consultant's report to analize the consultants report?
Next audit November 2014. Kiss the losers goodbye. Also, don't forget to thank Bernie Sifry for term limits.
Yes, thank Bernie for ridding us of the best and most engaged council member I've ever seen (Mary Ann).
what has Mary Ann accomplished? I don't care how nice she is. Bernie did this city a huge favor. The only people mad at him are you you you people.
Term limits=the best thing that happened in Pacifica.
In the game of kick the can Ms Nihart is without equal. To local politics, her second career, she brings finely-tuned professional skills of observation, assessment and manipulation along with a natural bureaucrats love of process and of course the real politician's instinctive avoidance of personal risk. Strong political skills. Accomplishments in office? Truly of her own? Pretty much nada, however the political value of accomplishment in office is over-rated. Getting things done is risky and real politicians don't do risky until the end of their careers, if ever. She could go far. We shouldn't hold her back, or, any of the others for that matter. Friends in high places and all that. Bernie, you the man!
Mary Ann has put hours upon hours of her personal time into trying to help our city. Whether you agree with her or not, what have you done, other than be a whiny little bitch?
Mary Ann got that sewer plant in Sharp Park closed. Yay! She' the driving force behind many projects including Ocean Blvd, Highway One improvements and Palmetto.
Hindsight is always 20/20 but closing the plant in her backyard and relocating it to the quarry area was not genius. It brought multiple regulatory agencies into the quarry making development much harder if not impossible. But hey, that probably wasn't a concern of the Sharp Park NIMBYS.
God bless Bernie Sifry! One man who's made a difference in Pacifica.
Closing the old waste water plant happened long before Mary Ann, was on city council.
So far, term limits have made no difference whatsoever. And they won't until the just-elected council members are termed out, 8 years from now.
Well, that's a buzz kill. Stone, Nihart, Digre have how long?
No, they will make a difference in four years when Mary Ann, our most effective council member in ages, will not be able to run for re-election.
Thank you Bernie!
I could be wrong, but I thought because term limits passed in 2010 while Mary Ann was in the middle of her first term, they didn't apply to that term so she could still run for another term after her current 2nd term ends.
"Measure V: Shall an ordinance be adopted providing prospectively that no person who has served two terms of office as a Pacifica City Councilmember shall be eligible to run for election as a Pacifica City Councilmember and further providing that if for any reason a person serves a partial term as Pacifica City Councilmember in excess of two years, that partial term shall be considered a full term for purposes of the term limit provision?"
term limits were passed 4 years ago
Can we get an official ruling on that? how about Stone and Digre?
Term limits was in 2010, 2 years ago.
"A Pacifica Term Limits, Measure V ballot proposition was on the November 2, 2010 ballot for voters in the City of Pacifica in San Mateo County. It was approved."
http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/Pacifica_Term_Limits,_Measure_V_(November_2010)
stone and digre gotta go! adios....
we need more progressive people like ervin and o'neill. looks like we are finally moving forward.
eh time will tell which direction we move in or if we move at all. good, bad, or indifferent, once elected, they're all like mildew.
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