It isn't much of a rebuttal, but the Dayton Business Journal has it.Dayton city leaders said the Ohio Auditor's office "grossly mischaracterized" a 2005 audit of the city's finances that was released Tuesday.Did I say rebuttal? Sounds to me like they are confirming everything that Mary Tayor's office said in their press release. So what's the problem? You didn't like the tone of it??? Life's tough in the Big Leagues...
City Manager Rashad Young said the audit, prepared by Cincinnati-based Foxx & Co., tells a different story than what was portrayed by Auditor Mary Taylor in a Tuesday press release. The release called the city's handling of various accounts and payroll procedures careless. It did not detail the steps the city has taken to respond to the various issues raised in the audit or the auditor's response to the city's solutions.
"We hope we don't have a repeat of this or that any other city has to go through it," Young said of the way the audit release was handled by the state.
According to the audit, the city was unable to produce accurate documents in a timely manner showing how more than $32 million in federal grant money was spent.
Instead of keeping track of federal grant money expenditures in one place, the city relied on individual department heads to track how $32.3 million was spent.
