Northwest Indiana Discussion

This will end the review of the 2009 Indiana State Board of Accounts for the City of Hammond.

The post from this point forward will be a review of the 2008 Hammond City Audit from the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2009, filed December 21st 2009.

The Audit can be found at: http://www.in.gov/sboa/WebReports/B35469.pdf

The post information may be found in the 2008 Hammond City Audit from the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2009, filed December 21st 2009, page 22.

The Audit can be found at: http://www.in.gov/sboa/WebReports/B35469.pdf




Cash and investment deficits arose primarily from disbursements exceeding receipts due to the
underestimate of current requirements, and late distribution of county taxes; these deficits are to
be repaid from future receipts.

The post information may be found in the 2008 Hammond City Audit from the Indiana State Board of Accounts, the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2009, filed December 21st 2009, page 23.

The Audit can be found at: http://www.in.gov/sboa/WebReports/B35469.pdf

Found this academic article. Interesting


http://www.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/1/3/9/1/8/pages139180/p139180-1.php

and when you are done with that you can read this. http://publish.aps.org/

Every bit as exciting.

off topic

Your point being what? You have been all over the place trying to justify your lies and all you are doing is re-posting what you entered in another thread without any proof what so ever. Off topic? Does that even count anymore? LOL!

Lies? Well then prove they are lies... 99% of what was in this post are from the SBA.

Prove there was no salt. Then we will talk.

Prove there was, no photo, no date, no time frame on the photo. Please

The State Auditor wrote on page 77 in the Summary of Results: "material weakness" and "significant deficiencies" in this Hammond City Audit. The State Auditor found: "Auditee qualified as low-risk auditee? no"


For the material directly below you can follow the link to the specific report: http://www.in.gov/sboa/WebReports/B37601.pdf[/color] found on page 69


Quote:
ANNUAL REPORT
The Sanitary District and Water Utility, departments of the City, annual receipts, disbursements
and balances were not included in the City's required annual report; therefore, the receipts and disbursements of the Utilities were not published as required by law.IC 5-3-1-3(a) states in part: "Within sixty (60) days after the expiration of each calendar year, the fiscal officer of each civil city and town in Indiana shall publish an annual report of the receipts and expenditures of the city or town . . ."



Inquiring minds just want to know why a fiscal report was not published? Could it be that McDermott's claim to reducing propert taxes was augmented by padding the cost of the Sanitation and Water Department Budgets, ala McDermott's chief of staff and administrative secretaries being found in the unpublished budget?

What else is hidden in this budget?


Now I am not sure how you feel about this, but it clearly appears Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr and Mr. Bob Lendi misalocated federal homeless funds to pay a political cronie. Even the State Board of Accounts found a problem with it.



From the most current State Board of Accounts Report, one of Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr cronies got a $25,000 bonus from a housing fund. Why this employee? The audit questions the legality of using unrelated funds.

found on page 86 of the report.


Quote:
FINDING 2009-5, HOME ALLOWABLE ACTIVITIES
Federal Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Federal Program: HOME Investing Partnership Program
CFDA Number: 14.239
Award Number: M-06-MC-18-0204

In 2008, the City offered an early, voluntary retirement incentive package to its employees if the
employee retired by December 31, 2008. The incentive package included awarding the employee $750
for each year of employment completed with the City. One Department of Planning and Development employee retired as of December 31, 2008, and was paid $24,750 on January 5, 2009, in accordance with the retirement package. (NOW WHY WAS ONE EMPLOYEE PAID A $24,750 BONUS FROM THIS OR ANY FUND, $24,750?)

Even though the employee's salary for 2008 was paid from the City's Redevelopment Commission Operating Fund, the $24,750 incentive benefit was paid from the City's Affordable Housing Fund
(Fund #285). The Affordable Housing Fund receipts and disburses the City's HOME Investing Partnership Grant Program. City officials provided documentation that the employee's incentive package payment would be paid from the HOME grant funds due to lack of funds in the Redevelopment budget.


The $24,750 is considered to be a question cost of the HOME Investment Partnership Program
grant since the retirement package payment was paid from HOME grant funds even though the employee
was not paid from HOME grant funds throughout the year.

24 CFR 92.504(a) states in part:
"The participating jurisdiction is responsible for managing the day to day operations of its
HOME program, ensuring that HOME funds are used in accordance with all program requirements
and written agreements, and taking appropriate action when performance problems
arise. The use of State recipients, subrecipients, or contractors does not relieve the participating
jurisdiction of this responsibility. The performance of each contractor and subrecipient
must be reviewed at least annually."
We recommended the City establish internal controls to verify the disbursements paid from grant
funds are for allowable activities of the grant.

Was it Mr. Lendi's accounting practices which caused the state to question how $2,920,855 was used or is it more of an concern at how the money was used. It appears from the notation that how the money was used is.....unknown.

This post is found in the State Board of Accounts Most Recent Report filed September 30th, 2010 for the fiscal year ending December 31st, 2009. http://www.in.gov/sboa/WebReports/B37601.pdf

Sorry but I don't see where the annual report has to be filed with tommy and freetime.

Oh geeze we are not going to go through another contribution type thread because you found another link are we?
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page 63 of the State Board of Accounts :




I believe per the report, it is not clear how much money the City Common Council contributed to the Fest.

Receipts were either lost or destroyed , payments made or received for contractual services apparently should be supported by a written contract.

I believe Mr. Lendi was the comptroller for the 2008 festival which the State Board of Audits found similiar problems. Mr. Lendi, per the State Board of Accounts is a CPA.