FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY

The following are part of my public forum at the work session on 7-21-14...

The police department and fire hall have no sign permit for the letters on their buildings.  The police Department is responsible for issuing tickets for sign violations and is in violation of that same sign ordinance.  What an outrage!

Before any Sister City funds that have been held in a private bank account are moved, an outside the area CPA must audit that account, thoroughly.  This is a fiduciary responsibility of the City of Little Falls.  How will the city pay it's residents back all of the money, that it misused by funding the Sister City Committee for more than a decade?   The residents deserve an answer.  It is, after all, a City Councils fundamental job to determine valid public purposes, and to act in their service.  And if an invalid public expenditure is made, the city could find itself dealing with taxpayer lawsuits.  If the taxpayer is successful the expenditure might be found to be ILLEGAL.  Personal liability for the expenditure might also fall upon the individual Council members, in some situations, since they have a fiduciary responsibility to spend the public's money for a PUBLIC PURPOSE.  The city could also be found in noncompliance by the State Auditor.  The state auditor could find that the city has made an unauthorized expenditure of public funds and could result in future special audits and embarrassment for the city.  The Council could lose the trust of the people in the community.  SHAME on this Council for authorizing $3,000.00 per year, on an entertainment subsidy for non-U.S. citizens and not the taxpayers of Little Falls.  SHAME on this Council for not listening to Theresa and I.  SHAME on your city administrator for not advising this Council to defund the Sister City program at the end of 2013, as he stated he would do in a meeting with Melissa Peterson and I in March 2013, as he could identify NO PUBLIC PURPOSE. Your city attorney should have advised you differently years ago. 

Are taxpayer LAWSUITS ON THE HORIZON?  I THINK SO.

I request that golf course scholarships for interested lower income residents of Little Falls be issued immediately, to provide a public purpose, and not just cheap golf for the rich.  Councilman Hanfler, who is on the golf committee, has state publicly that the committee does not meet monthly, as required by your own Charter.  I believe I heard him state that they hadn't met in over a year.  

NUF SAID.