County Money Being Paid to City Of Defuniak

[ShallowsNole]

Bob, thank you for the thank you but I didn't really do anything. And I only look at SoWal twice a week or so, so I miss a lot.
Somewhere in the past few pages I scrolled through, someone said that the Tax Collector's letter from July wasn't shared with the city. However, Sara Bowers (love her) was one of the cc's. Prior to her becoming City Manager, she was Finance Director for the City of DeFuniak for MANY years and she is a sharp cookie. So, I am a bit bewildered that the city either had no idea why they were receiving a large sum of money from the county, or had no idea that they were receiving funding at all? How could you miss that?

 

[Bob Hudson]

When I said they didn't know I meant they didn't know there wasn't a "inter local agreement". My understanding is they thought there was.

My point exactly !!!! How could they not know. All my sources on this have gone silent. Guess they are all building a firewall !

 

[James Bentwood]

More like sun block. We need sunshine in our government. How about body cams for public employees and politicians?

 

[John G]

Sounds like DeFunk needs an audit too...

Go back to when Mike Standley was City Manager for starters. Sara Bowers was finance director. I recall some type of brew ha ha years back with the council and Adkinson pushing to get Standley back in.

Hum...we shall see.

 

[Misty]

Ms. Banks from the WCTA spoke at the BCC meeting that the accounting firm hiring process currently used by the County should go out for RFP's. That NEEDED to happen when the GJ report came back and should probably have happened when Imfeld was the OMB!

The fact the County is remiss to hold anyone accountable for these financial failures is totally unacceptable and the taxpayers have ultimately paid the bill and will continue to do so in large part because of Imfeld and Jones shortcomings.

Something also tells me that earning an online Masters Degree doesn't necessarily make you the brightest tool in the shed and it obviously hasn't done the taxpayers much good either.

 

[John G]

Me-maw always said that when the wind blows hard and birds all fly away at the same time, storms a comin'...

We will see...

 

[ShallowsNole]

I was going to give the county the benefit of the doubt and say that maybe it was destroyed when the Courthouse burned. But a quick Google search indicated that was way back when Eucheeanna was the county seat. Not counting the fire at the Courthouse in the early 1990's when smoke/water damage caused everyone to move out for a time.

 

[ShallowsNole]

But the fact is that, in 1914, you probably didn't have to have the documentation you are required to have today. I'm just amazed that nobody looked at it before now. Actually I'm not, but I'm trying to be nice .

 

[Bob Hudson]

This appears to be the beginning of the payments.

It appears that this is not the first time these payments have been an issue. In 1980 the issue was addressed in the City of DeFuniak Springs Commission meetings as follows:

 

[Misty]

Bob,

According to those documents it was a one time payment in full of $1900.00 so, why was it still being paid 101 years later?