Walker recommends a $1.5 M withdraw from City trust fund to pay its vendors.

My information alleges that the City of Coatesville’s Finance Department’s records are a shambles and that they have been for years. That source alleged that a forensic examination of the cities finances would be very expensive for that reason.

A forensic examination of the city’s finances allegedly would be too expensive for the City itself to undertake and also possibly too expensive a task for the Chester County DA’s office to undertake.

A forensic examination of the cities finances could be undertaken by the US Department of Justice.

Does Stacy Bjorhus our new Director of Finance feel she accepted a nightmare job?

Walker is using the economy as an excuse for not paying monthly bills. He did not have that excuse in April of 2008 when the Coatesville PD Nextel radios went dead.

The “Bloc of Four” took office with a balanced budget. They had a chance to keep it that way when Chetty Builders was ready to start building its 3rd Avenue & Lincoln Hwy. building but the “Bloc” followed Andrew Lehr’s recommendation and shot Chetty down.

But, I guess you need to give all the city administrations of the past few years a break. You could argue that the cities financial problems began when it was forced to defend itself against more than thirty arguably frivolous lawsuits. The city won every lawsuit.

Maybe the USDoJ could look into those things too.

See today’s Daily Local News:
Council to check finances tonight
Coatesville city officials preparing to discuss budget gap at workshop
Monday, October 5, 2009
By DANIELLE LYNCH, Staff Writer

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2009/10/05/news/srv0000006543041.txt

Also see:
DAILY LOCAL NEWS
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Outage affects Coatesville police phones

http://www.dailylocal.com/articles/2008/04/30/past%20stories/19953939.txt


Also see:

Chetty on Hold
Chester County Reporter
March 28, 2006

http://www.box.net/shared/uuukr2f5j5