Comments on: ECSO Investigates After Town Of Century Documents Reported Stolen

By: Solution

Solution — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 05:19:09 +0000

They should contact representive Mike Hill to order the Joint legislative auditing committee to perform a non criminal operational audit like was done for Palm Bay and Defuniak Springs, Florida.

By: Wondering

Wondering — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 02:53:29 +0000

The latest audit on file on page 43 says the town should consult an attorney about one of the loans. What happened. It said is was against a FL statute. as in against the law. The entire council voted 4 to 0 to do it, except the recipient. Is States ATTN looking into this. This is the old story link and the accountant is being pair for services. The audit is on file at the auditor general web site. A recommendation by Warrant Everitt dated 2018 addresses this. http://www.northescambia.com/2018/07/century-council-member-receives-12000-loan-refinance-from-town

By: Merry

Merry — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:55:09 +0000

http://www.northescambia.com/2018/11/century-council-president-warns-of-possible-sunshine-law-violations

So at the last meeting the clerk was “working on them,” (the minutes) but they were stolen between then and now?

And they know the Brooks loan docs were stolen a month ago, but they never provided the loan document details when requested under a public records request by North Escambia?

Hmm

By: Curious

Curious — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 00:50:34 +0000

Why in the world aren’t the meetings recorded???

By: chris

chris — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 22:27:31 +0000

1. took out a loan.
2. allegedly paid it off.
3. records of said payment to Century are “missing.”

Clean the whole bunch out and start over.

By: Not a rocket scientist

Not a rocket scientist — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 21:02:15 +0000

I meant “had” a sign supporting Hudson and the has been paying HIM all along for his services.

If any of the speculations, are wrong please prove otherwise, if not, the citizens and taxpayers payers in Century have lost confidence in the governance of the municipality.

We look forward to having the leaders get to the bottom of this.

Past articles reported Greg Marcille was looking into the things in September. What did he find? Where and what is the report and what will the State of Florida continue to do about this?

Municipalities are under the State of Florida, not reporting directly to the county, unless said municipality dissolves. I do not see the ones on the council voting to give up their title, small pittance or perhaps hand in the cookie jar nor staff that has a job.

so Escambia County is not doing anything about it really. How far can elected and paid public servants pass the buck?

Looks like pretty far.

By: Not a Rocket Scientist

Not a Rocket Scientist — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:36:14 +0000

Is filing a false report to law enforcement “a federal offense” (so it wasn’t even spelled correctly and no it was not federal)
So did he direct the clerk to file this report that the minutes were stolen so that he wouldn’t get it trouble for trying to make some of that stuff from the September meeting disappear?

So dumb..sounds like dumb and dumber.

Somehow it seems like the Mayor is trying to cover tracks for the loan for Sandra McMurray Jackson. I think he doesn’t even realizes that that was wrong..evidenced by the other article that he thought it was because he was black.

I imagine the original loans were from an economic grant from the state. They may not really have been appropriate from the get go. From following stories on here it looks like other grant monies from the state weren’t spent correctly and monitored. It looks like this has been going on for a while, as far as spending money not according to statute and they paid the same attorney all along who was supposed to be taking care of this. The lady running for council was related and the accountant has a sign supporting Hudson in front of her business.

Just to read the audit and see that special funds are being used for general funds just looks like incompetence all the way around and around and around.

Talk about shaking my head..

It’s been going on probably since the 90’s or earlier.

They probably meant well, so nobody wants nice old Mr. so and so and others to get in trouble.

Seriously ..this needs to be part of D5.

By: David

David — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 20:05:09 +0000

That is the minutes where Henry Hawkins had submitted and been paid for mileage and fuel for his personal truck for doing City business. Ann Brooks told him that he could do one or the other but not both makes you wonder, also where Henry paid for food for the Democrat meeting in Century. Same ones that I requested from the Town back in Oct now they are missing. MAYBE ITS TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE AT CITY HALL.

By: IMHO

IMHO — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:58:00 +0000

So you think a CPA wouldn’t have a copy of the records showing she paid the loan off?? Seriously. Seems I remember at her open house how thankful she was the city built it for her, never heard about a loan tho….

By: How long

How long — Thu, 29 Nov 2018 19:16:12 +0000

So if the states attn office was already supposed to be looking into this plus since the FL state auditing and FL joint legislative auditing committees are involved how much longer with this be allowed to continue?

Looks like it goes further up the chain of incompetence.

Some are paying attention to Greg Marcielle as well.. Bill Eddins etc

Why doesn’t he do his job?

How far do the GOBS go?

Does it have anything to do with Gulf Breeze and the second signature?

If people are unwilling or unable to right the wrongs at least start prepping to figure out how to keep the water flowing and the sewer discharging and the trash picked up, and the few businesses opened.

Who cares if the town government exists?