In a report today, State Auditor Crit Luallen revealed major problems with the Knox County Fiscal Court.
The highlights:
- $6,053 of credit card expenditures couldn’t be validated and weren’t properly documented
- The county jail, which opened in 2008, doesn’t have polices and procedures in place for establishing segregation of duties and the safeguarding of assets
- Vacation leave is being illegally accrued
- The county isn’t incorporating future hospital bond default obligations in its budget
- The county failed to monitor federal grant funds
Click here (Warning: External PDF Link) to read the audit.
With issues like this popping up 24/7 in drug-riddled Eastern Kentucky, how is it, again, we’re supposed to trust Rand Paul’s notion that localities can adequately manage money and solve the drug nightmare?
6 responses so far ↓
1 Lucas // Aug 27, 2010 at 2:20 pm
Solving the drug nightmare is very simple: legalize them. What is all the hand-wringing about?
2 jim // Aug 27, 2010 at 2:43 pm
Legalize what? Are we going to be dispensing oxycotin from vending machines? The issue is much larger than marijuana in the Daniel Boone.
3 jake // Aug 27, 2010 at 2:45 pm
I’d say marijuana is of the least concern in Appalachia.
Hard drugs like meth and prescription medication addictions are the real issue. Honestly, they always have been. See: The Bluegrass Conspiracy.
4 Belknap Banquo // Aug 27, 2010 at 3:01 pm
Sometimes it just gets to the level where, as a hillbilly college buddy told me years ago, there are places where the people with get up and go done got up and left.
5 EPluribusUnum // Aug 27, 2010 at 8:24 pm
No Rand Paul’s LATEST drug solution is
“Faith Based”…….let the churches do it
So unless them ther local sheriffs and prosecutors is church going he won’t be dependen on em, see?
6 bestmid // Aug 28, 2010 at 8:14 am
Just let Jesus say no.
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