Correspondence between Lake Worth residents and the City Commission re Internal Auditor position...

Mayor, Commissioners and City Manager,

I am contacting you to express my extreme dissatisfaction at reports that you plan to thwart our City's Charter AGAIN by not "funding" the position of Internal Auditor. (Not an "Office of Internal Auditor")

I will be happy to join any action, petition, complaint or other such action as deemed sufficient to ensure our Charter, our City's  Constitution is adhered to. After hearing how many of your constituents adamantly demand this vital position be filled, it is almost criminal to ignore them AND the Charter.

This decision must  be revisited. To that end, I request this item be placed on the next agenda so that the citizenry may, again, express our opinion on this important CHARTER REQUIRED POSITION.

Sincerely,

Bernard F. Guthrie Jr.

Later:

Thanks to one and all for the support and information. Thanks to Vice mayor Mulvehill, who sent me the archive, I found that the commission is considering a couple options in regards to the Internal Auditor. One is to hire a CPA at upwards of $80K to $90K plus benefits bringing the budget item to around $120K. The other is to not fund. Commissioner Golden and McVoy are pretty much against funding the required position. Vice Mayor and Commissioner Maxwell are pretty much in favor of funding and the Mayor, on the archive, can go either way, but in fairness has stated to me she is on the majority side of funding the position.

If you have time to listen to the tape and listen to the arguments for and against, it is interesting how they get to not needing this position and compare it to a charter requirement to have our Police Chief and Fire Chief live in the city. A stretch.

Click here for link.

Thank you again Suzanne for this link.

Chip


and...

Ms. Waterman, 

Your comments in the meeting about the internal auditor position being something that only 15 people or so who maintain blogs in this City desire is not surprising to me at all.  It is just continued confirmation of how out of touch you are with what the people of this city want;  the very same people you so zealously state "you represent".  This desire is probably about as equal, among the majority, as the desire to keep PBSO in Lake Worth.  Too long has our City run amuck with fiscal irresponsibility with Lake Worth Utility rate hikes to pull its derrière out of the fire.  I add my voice to the more than 15 or so people who desire that their City budget for and hire an Internal Auditor.  Oh and by the way...I don't maintain a blog.  This trivializing of the taxpayers loud outcries for help will not help this City to move forward.  Anyone with a hint of leadership skills would be aware of that.  

In closing I will reiterate that you and the other commissioners will not find it easy to continue ignoring our demands that our local government abide by the charter of our City and do the right thing and bring an Internal Auditor on board to begin to unravel the tangled bowl of spaghetti that is our City's books right now.

Best wishes,

Mark A. Parrilla