The hazards of not having a full-time chief financial officer may include the possibility of budget errors such as the $1.7 million typo that went unnoticed in 2009 until a blogger pointed it out.
You can read about it here.
The budget statement prepared by auditors for submission to the state contained the error, despite sign-off by nearly a dozen officials including a part-time CFO from Bridgewater. Plaintalker invites readers to review this October 2009 post on the CFO situation carefully and think about how things stand now. Is the city really in any better shape in 2013? Can the governing body do without a budget consultant at this time?
--Bernice
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Our City Council needs all the help it can get, especially since Sharon and her ill staffed cabinet has made so many mistakes every year she has done this. Most people get better as time goes on, not Sharon. Only Sharon's supporters, who need to be removed from the City Council by the voters, would not want a budget advisor. Let's go on the side of caution, not Sharon's fly-by-night manner of running the city.
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