By: Libi Uremovic | Original Article at patch.com
2015/2016 Budget contains a new department: Department 3100: Public Works Development Services. This department did not exist until the 2015/2016 Budget was created.
This newly created Department has a $3.9 Million Budget for ‘Contract Services’
General Ledger shows that the only contract services listed in this department is Urban Logic
In the past; most of Urban Logic’s money was paid out through Department 10: Sewer Services Fund.
Now that the true condition of the sewer plant has been revealed Urban Logic is being paid through Department 3100 to avoid accountability.
The August and September General Ledgers lists $139,558.40 coded to Urban Logic. The only other entry in Department 3100 is to the Beaumont Chamber of Commerce for $15.00 coded to ‘Travel, Training, and Meetings’.
“A Pattern and Practice of Deception”
“Fraud by Clear and Convincing Evidence”
Judge Chaffee, WRCOG Summary Judgement