City of Coral Gables is said to Double Bill FEMA

September 13, 2010 1 Comment

One might hope that this Coral Gables Gazette story is not quite as bad as it looks initially. However, it does not engender enormous confidence in the finance director and auditing functions in Coral Gables, to say the least.  No great confidence that the City is able to keep track of others’ money, let alone the taxpayers.

Florida has ordered Coral Gables to reimburse over $1.2 million  of federal funds the city had apparently doubled billed and was paid twice for clean up expenses of three 2005 Hurricanes: Katrina, Rita and Wilma.

via City ordered to repay 2005 storms cleanup monies.

Filed under Coral Gables, Finance, Government

Unknown's avatarAbout Stephen E. McGaughey
Resident of the City of Coral Gables; Formerly with Inter-American Development Bank, Senior Environmental Project and Policy Leaders, Agricultural Economics, Forest Sector Projects and Policies, Country Representative Financing in El Salvador and the Dominican Republic

One Response to City of Coral Gables is said to Double Bill FEMA

  1. Robert Burr's avatar Robert Burr says:
    September 13, 2010 at 8:58 AM

    It seems David Brown was quite fond of FEMA. Perhaps he figured out that rather than trimming all the big trees in Coral Gables, it was easier to allow them to grow tall and fat, then charge FEMA for the clean-up after they went down in a hurricane. Better to spend the money on wining and dining and lining his pockets, philandering and playing the field. Soon, we can all breath a sigh of relief — thanks to the recent term limits of our most infamous leaders of Coral Gables — as our dreaded decade of shame soon comes to an end.

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