Comments on: Broomell Does Limbo Rock for $100K Cecil County Auditor but Lands Flat on 4-1 Vote https://ceciltimes.com/2012/09/broomell-does-limbo-rock-for-100k-cecil-county-auditor-but-lands-flat-on-4-1-vote/ News and Views for Cecil County and the Eastern Shore of Maryland Fri, 25 Nov 2022 14:21:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 By: F Gaylord Moody III https://ceciltimes.com/2012/09/broomell-does-limbo-rock-for-100k-cecil-county-auditor-but-lands-flat-on-4-1-vote/#comment-7495 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 02:34:09 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=2542#comment-7495 I do think an internal audit function could be a valuable oversight added for the taxpayer protection, especially relating to financial management of bid proposals, land preservation purchases, the sewer plants, and other public works projects. For example, people who are on septic and wells should not have to contribute to the capital costs of building new sewer plants, nor to their ongoing operations. Commissioners ignored recommendations to increase sewer hook ups and billings. The county “backed into” becoming the owner of sewer plants and then kept those sewer plants due to subsequent stupid decisions. When the Treasurer proposed earlier this year to shift to an annual billing for sewer bills, it sent a red flag that the financial management was unduly stressed and the ability to run the sewer plants as enterprise funds was an unrealized concept.

However, the correlation of potential financial mismanagement of sewer plants as an enterprise fund that would not be subsidized by septic system property owners and the need for an internal auditor is faint to nonexistent. The county is just too unsophisticated to accept a program of constructive reviews.

The local elected officials with the most extensive business background are the Treasurer and a commissioner, but their experience is entrepreneurial. And, there is a vast difference between the management and the ethics of county government and businesses where the financial well being of the executive is the same as the financial well being of the enterprise. I do not think there is a single elected official in office at the county level that has had an extensive background in large bureaucracies where internal audit was a meaningful function. Without an actual working experience with internal audit the blind would be leading the blind trough a field of live mines.

Broomell is yet again running amuck and challenging Mullin and Dunn to plumb the depths of ineptitude.

]]> By: Brian Arellazano https://ceciltimes.com/2012/09/broomell-does-limbo-rock-for-100k-cecil-county-auditor-but-lands-flat-on-4-1-vote/#comment-7483 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 15:10:20 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=2542#comment-7483 OBBT… Office of Broomell Bootlicking Toady

]]> By: Rick O'Shea https://ceciltimes.com/2012/09/broomell-does-limbo-rock-for-100k-cecil-county-auditor-but-lands-flat-on-4-1-vote/#comment-7481 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:47:22 +0000 https://ceciltimes.com/?p=2542#comment-7481 The money would be better spent on a Parlimentarian to run the meetings so that Broomell could be controlled.

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