By: Libi Uremovic, August 24, 2014 | Original Article at Patch.com
City of Beaumont Uses A Page From The Gateway Playbook To Distract From Releasing the Internal Controls Report
From the City of Beaumont website:
Internal Control Committee Application
The City of Beaumont is currently seeking volunteers to serve on an internal control committee. Committee members will be reponsible for reviewing Request for Proposals (RFPs) received from independent consultants to perform a review of the City’s internal financial controls.
Applications must be submitted to the City Clerk’s Office no later than 5:00 p.m. on September 9, 2014.
The City of Beaumont received an Internal Controls Report from the Audting Firm of Moss Levy Hartzhiem. The City refuses to release the Report – apparently it is THAT damaging. The five Council Members approved the Internal Controls Report without being allowed to review the Report. To this day not one member of Council has seen the Internal Controls Report nor have they requested to see the Report.
It is not procedure to form a committee of private citizens to review RFP’s, nor has it been an option for any other Bids for City Projects. The City is using the Same ‘Gateway Committee’ distraction to hide the Internal Controls Report that has already been issued. The only use this Committe will serve will be to show which citizens of Beaumont are being paid off.
Kapanicas and Alyward will never allow an outside Auditing Firm review the City’s Books because they know the Books are cooked.
The Beaumont City and Council have never attempted to confront the City’s financial problems honesly. They use lies, deceit, and slander to distract and control the populace.
“THE WILLFUL CHILD’’
“A PATTERN AND PRACTICE OF DECEPTION”