Scattered thunderstorms High: 62 | Low: 51 | Details, page 2 DAILY GLOBE yourdailyglobe.com Thursday, September 22, 2016 75 cents Board approves contract to fix audit problems By RICHARD JENKINS was reported there was approxi- the water and sewer fund. All the While the discrepancy has external reviews that were find, that Deb Bradford can’t
[email protected] mately $55,000 unaccounted for other funds have been gone kept Ahonen from completing the unable to account for the money find. I think we really owe it to IRONWOOD TOWNSHIP — from the township’s water and through,” said Treasurer Jyl audit, Olson-DeRosso said the — Ahonen and Debbie Bradford, the township and ourselves to There was only one item on the utilities funds, a discrepancy Olson-DeRosso. audit can be filed with a “clean who the board hired to help pre- say, ‘You know what, we’re going agenda for Wednesday’s special which made completing the audit The contract was created by opinion” if the state auditor finds pare for the audit and put sys- to look for fraud. If there isn’t, Ironwood Township Board of difficult. Cary J. Vaughn, who has been and resolves the discrepancies. tems in place to prevent financial great.’” Trustee meeting, a contract with Wednesday’s approval to con- one of the township’s primary Several trustees questioned issues from arising. According to information pre- the Michigan Department of tract with the state will allow the contacts with the Treasury whether there should be more of “We’ve got a lot of red flags,” sented at the meeting, the state’s Treasury to hire the depart- Department of Treasury to come Department, after Vaughn spoke an emphasis investigating the Lyons said.