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State Auditor Dave Yost...
Cutting Costs... And
An Audit Finds Taxpayers Paid for Boxer Shorts?
We went to the mat this week and saved you a cool million dollars on
the rent for the Auditor’s Office over the next two years. It
seems there’s a surplus of vacant office space in downtown Columbus,
and we were able to negotiate a new lease that dropped our rent by more
than $5 a square foot.
Now the landlords we negotiated with are pretty mad at me. But
It’s your money -- and the people of Ohio are my primary concern.
As they say, it’s not personal, it’s just business.
You can read more here.
We also opened a special audit of the federally funded tutoring program
at Columbus City Schools. It looks as though some of the tutoring
that we, the people paid for never happened. The Superintendent,
to her credit, asked us to come in to investigate. We’ll see
where the numbers and the evidence take us. Here’s the link to
the story in the Columbus Dispatch,
One of the things we look at in our financial audits is a sample of
expenditures to make sure money is being spent for a proper public
purpose. In the township of Catawba Island, we found taxpayers
had been charged for a bar stool. There were other items like
hangers and bowls from WalMart.
And... a pair of men’s boxer shorts. I’m not making this up...
you can read the local news story about it here.
I’ll keep on fighting for you.
Dave Yost
To read the referenced articles, click here
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