VISITOR TO CHILLICOTHE CITY HALL AMAZED BY OPENNESS

OF FINANCIAL REPORTS BY CHILLICOTHE AUDITOR.

 I got a lot of material from City Auditor William D. Morrissey who's

been the auditor in Chillicothe for 23 years and has a jam up shop.

I will copy some pages for limited distribution to the candidates, etc.

like the inventory lists he puts out and the bids sheets. 

You’ve never seen that before in Portsmouth I bet.  And the monthly print outs, the reports he makes available displayed on tables in the hallway for the public, the annual report for the public and the 10 year reports, and more. All free to the public.

Trent Williams seems to be the road block, log jam.......for transparency, the

buck stops at least there in the Portsmouth Auditor's office. 

 A "Visitor" to another city.

Another view of Auditor by a “Spectator”

Our current auditor is the same one that signed the check on the Martings swindle.

At one council meeting when the Mayor was explaining to the citizens that the

Martings foundation had already returned $200,000.00 and he had no clue as to

where it went, he then asked Auditor Trent Williams and Trent answered that he

also had no clue.

Several months later the council granted the same auditor and our hard working

part time Solicitor $10,000.00 pay raises. Now after some controversy the Solicitor

stated he was going to return half of his raise.

 What about the auditor you ask? No. No. No.  Our boy came back asking for

more money. Can you believe that? Now remember the Mayor Jim Kalb? 

is about this time that the council is in heated debate over the budget , well our

Mayor chimes in and wants a $5000.00 plus pay raise.  He was denied .the

raise and the new car he wanted. (sorry I forgot that part} . Now as to the

budget the Mayor says we’re only short about $300,000.00 but our auditor

states it could be as much as $800,000.00 short.

DOES ALL THIS KIND OF BOGGLE YOUR MIND???

If I could find a good scriptwriter this would make a great sitcom.

All of this is recorded in the city clerk's records. 

Written by "A Spectator"