THREE DAYS A WEEK POST COMMENTS AT CAPE-CORAL-DAILY-BREEZE.COM Neaded CAPE CORAL north Twins down Pirates in final spring game at Hammond Stadium BREEZE — SPORTS EARLY-WEEK EDITION WEATHER: Scattered Showers • Tonight: Partly Cloudy • Wednesday: Partly Cloudy — 2A cape-coral-daily-breeze.com Vol. 50, No. 38 Tuesday, March 29, 2011 50 cents Council OKs audits for utility expansion project city. Sullivan said their familiari- Coral's contracts should be exam- can get the necessary paper work Cost of work not to exceed $200,000 ty with the city will be helpful in ined. Sullivan said work done in from MWH. moving forward with the work. those two areas “screams of over- Sullivan said it is necessary to By DREW WINCHESTER is expected to be funded by the Sullivan said the audits were sight.” discover the scope of work before
[email protected] city's utility rate payers, and will crucial in order to keep Cape “It’s almost the exact same “running up the bill” with the Cape Coral City Council break down to roughly $4 per rate Coral from “falling into traps” in thing that happened in Cape selected auditors. approved a not to exceed amount payer, according to Mayor John the future and to possibly recover Coral,” Sullivan said. MWH officials responded to of $200,000 for construction and Sullivan. monies for the city's taxpayers. Townsend will conduct the the mayor recently saying that forensic audits of SE 1, SW 4 and The two audits will be per- Sullivan cited work done by construction audit under the guise records request would have to be SW 5 of the city's utilities expan- formed by Rich Townsend and MWH — the city's utilities con- of Kessler, Sullivan said, and will paid for by the city, per the terms sion project.