Problems In the Parks Department...

I must have crawled under a rock or something--- I just found out about all of the problems in the Providence Parks Department! (and I only found out because I was surfing channels, and ended up watching a cable access interview with the new director of the Parks Dept. It turned out that there was an audit of the department that turned up some interesting problems, nclude the following:

embezzlement of $58,000 by an employee

no interest loans to the director of the Museum

shoddy, incorrect, and faulty book-keeping

I knew that dealing with the Parks department was never a piece of cake, but who knew about all of that stuff?


You can find out more than you want to know about it by checking out the following links:

• Download the Final Parks Department Forensic Audit Report [PDF]
  



• Download the Audit Addendum [PDF]
  
  



• Download the Audit Q & A [PDF]

Cicilline says zoo could be handed over to private group WLNE-TV (ABC6), RI - Aug 16, 2004 ... He tells The Providence Journal he can't rule out the society's assuming much greater responsibility ... The audit came after a city Parks Department employee ...

Providence weighs ceding zoo control Boston Globe, MA - Aug 15, 2004 PROVIDENCE -- The city is in talks that could result in it ceding control ... A forensic audit ordered after an employee in the Parks Department admitted ...

City Considers Ceding Control Over Zoo Turn to 10.com, RI - Aug 15, 2004 PROVIDENCE -- The city is in talks that could result in it ceding control ... A forensic audit ordered after an employee in the Parks Department admitted ...

City ready to give zoo up to Society Providence Journal (subscription), RI - Aug 14, 2004 ... PROVIDENCE -- As the dust continues to fly from a financial scandal in the city Parks Department, talks are under ... A forensic audit of wrongdoing in the Parks ...

Parks audit finds conflicts of interest, poor controls Providence Journal (subscription), RI - Aug 6, 2004 ... PROVIDENCE -- Former city Parks Supt ... and suffered from poor financial controls that left her operation vulnerable to fraud and waste, a forensic audit shows ...

Parks Dept. audit reveals missing funds, records Providence Journal (subscription), RI - Aug 6, 2004 ... Alix Ogden, the newly appointed superintendent of the Providence Parks Department, called the audit findings "disturbing," but said she's hopeful that under ...

Providence mayor announces conclusions of Parks Department audit WLNE-TV (ABC6), RI - Aug 6, 2004 PROVIDENCE, RI (AP) - Providence Mayor David Cicilline says an independent financial firm has completed a forensic audit of the troubled city Parks Department. ...

Parks Department Audit Shows Missing Funds Turn to 10.com, RI - Aug 6, 2004 ... night in a closed meeting, The Providence Journal reported. An audit remains active and the apparent loss ... in the office of former Parks Superintendent Nancy ...

Parks Dept. audit shows thousands missing Providence Journal (subscription), RI - Aug 5, 2004 ... PROVIDENCE -- After a year of investigating the finances of the Parks Department, forensic auditors ... An audit remains active and the apparent loss could grow ...

Finance adviser resigns amid parks audit Providence Journal (subscription), RI - Jul 20, 2004 ... forensic audit of irregularities in Parks Department accounts, adviser Raymond A. DeStefanis is reportedly pressured to quit. BY GREGORY SMITH. PROVIDENCE -- ...