Johnson County Commish Fumes As 'Data Limitations' Constrain Budget Talks

Like everyone else, our Golden Ghetto pals need more info to make informed decisions. 

Sadly . . .

Charlotte O'Hara, Johnson County 3rd District Commissioner, shared outrage after her requests for info were denied.

Here's a quote, that includes more than a bit of push back against Chairman Kelly, from her latest newsletter blast to constituents . . .

"An audit was presented to the Johnson County Board of County Commissioners last Thursday, September 5th.  In this audit the staff was unable to quantify results due to “data limitations”.  Page one of the audit report states, “Data was not sufficiently reliable to identify all contracts and contract amounts consistently…County purchase orders were often created after receiving an invoice from a supplier.”

"WHAT!!!!!  You read that correctly, it seems there are problems in the land of perfection and Chairman Kelly would prefer not to discuss the details.  When I pressed questions Chairman Kelly stated, “I think someone is just looking for a sound bite.” Wrong, Mr. Chairman, I was looking for ANSWERS to the statement on the audit report which read, “Data limitations kept us from answering that.”

O'Hara provides more deets from her perspective . . . 

"There was an example given of a contract for $50K which had delivery in $10K increments and our audit staff was unable to track them.  AND the biggie of the day: our ION system, the portal for vendors to respond to RFPs and our Oracle system through which the county makes payments are NOT INTEGRATED.  Purchase order codes, if there is a purchase order, must be MANUALLY TRANSFERED from Ion to Oracle with multiple opportunities for error.

"My head is still spinning from statements made by the audit staff such as, “we found confirming purchase orders”, meaning purchase orders created after or in conjunction with receiving an invoice.  Does that open the door to fraud or mismanagement????"

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