Posted on 04/23/2010 5:03:15 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Two days after state auditors disclosed that Oakland misspent federal stimulus dollars meant for job creation, Mayor Ron Dellums said the city's Recovery Act problems are a thing of the past.
"It's much ado about nothing, man," Dellums said in his first comments on the matter. "It's an accounting matter."
Auditors found that Oakland, which has struggled with an 18.3 percent unemployment rate, did not properly account for about $830,000 of the $3 million in stimulus grants it received last year for summer youth, adult and dislocated-worker programs. Auditors found the city arbitrarily used the funds, inflated job numbers and made serious accounting mistakes that made it difficult for them to track how the money was spent.
State auditors said they were concerned that stimulus funds intended to create jobs were given by the city to a nonprofit, the Oakland Private Industry Council, which did not have a contract with the city from July 2009 until earlier this month.
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“.... state audit has found more than $800,000 in stimulus funds intended for job creation in Oakland were misspent or improperly accounted for.
The review by the state Office of the Inspector General was released on Tuesday.
It found the Oakland Private Industry Council, a nonprofit group that administered the money for the city, had used the funds for trips to a water park, repairs at a church, rent, bus passes, salaries and car allowances.
Auditors also complained they could not trace some of the funds because the industry council had designated them for expenses unrelated to the jobs program.
Oakland and the industry council defended the field trips and other expenses as legitimate.”
Critics are RASISTS!
Dellums is such a loser communist tool. Dellums take a leap.
Gag me. $80 million of our supposedly-federal tax dollars poured into that bottomless pit?!
As my favorite blogger said: "We are now a government FOR the well-connected, paid for BY the non-connected".
Zimbabwe with trips to water parks ...
Quick!
Somebody check Ron’s freezer!
Ron will do for Oakland what Mugabe did for Zimbabwe.
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