We have an Attorney General that sells guns to drug cartels and lies to Congress. We have an NSA that illegally spies on us. The IRS gives our private information to other government agencies illegally. Then you have Barack Obama who does no know how to tell the truth.
Therefore, it should be expected that the people be kept in the dark for weeks about $1.4 million the city of State of California. The State Controller sent a confidential memo to the city demanding it pay money owed. Why was this being kept from the people of Stockton? This is why government can no be trusted and is not respected. Business is done behind closed doors when it is the people’s money at stake.
“The office of State Controller John Chiang says in a confidential letter dated June 24 to Stockton’s City Hall that it may seek a legal order to compel the payment. The letter is part of a draft report of an audit the state launched in April 2012.”
Stockton may have to repay redevelopment money
By Scott Smith, Stockton Record, 8/1/13
STOCKTON - Stockton may be forced to pay $1.4 million that it’s accused of illegally transferring from its defunct redevelopment agency.
The office of State Controller John Chiang says in a confidential letter dated June 24 to Stockton’s City Hall that it may seek a legal order to compel the payment. The letter is part of a draft report of an audit the state launched in April 2012.
City Manager Bob Deis said he respectfully refutes the controller’s charge.
“We have a different perspective,” said Deis, deferring any further comment until after the audit Chiang’s office conducted is finished and made public.
The audit, among a list of findings, concludes that Stockton officials transferred the money on Feb. 4, 2011, shortly after the state made redevelopment agencies throughout California null and void Jan. 1, 2011.
For years, local governments, such as Stockton’s, formed redevelopment agencies to collect taxes used to fix up blighted corners of the community. Gov. Jerry Brown led the charge to close the redevelopment agencies, citing abuse.
The city transferred the disputed money to pay down debt on an affordable housing loan, Chiang’s office says.
The Record obtained a copy of a confidential draft report of the audit by the Controller’s Office. The city’s chief financial officer, Vanessa Burke, was briefed on the claim and given 10 days to respond. Deis said Wednesday that the city responded to the audit but has yet to hear back or receive a final copy. Chiang spokesman Jacob Roper said he couldn’t comment until the report was made public.
Chiang’s auditors also investigated Stockton’s gas tax and traffic congestion funds the city received from the state from 2004 to 2011 to repair streets, finding some accounting errors totaling about $56,000.
“The city satisfactorily resolved the findings noted in our prior audit report,” the audit says.
