Issues on MCAP Auditing Cleared
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Rain Expected Rainy and mild today and fflEDMLY FINAL tonight Clearing tomorrow. Sonny and cool again on Sat- } Ked Bank, Freehold f urday. #. ' Long Branch » / EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 9fc Years VOL 93 NO. 217 RED BANK, Ft J., THURSDAY, MAY 6.1971 TENCENTS Issues on MCAP Auditing Cleared ByALHORAY ' The pre-audit questionnaire said: "In-kind contributions He also said he has accepted MCAP's explanations for the year's audit. LONG BRANCH - Officers of Monmonth Community AcUon must be reviewed for program year 'C (1969) as federal ex- $44,915 in "questioned costs" for year "C" and that the issue The program chief also said that a $3,154 item owed to OEO Program Inc. have received notice from federal officials that penditures exceeded the 80 per cent maximum federal share has been satisfied.' . by MCAP has been cleared by receipt of a check for that a 13-point list of auditing questions has been resolved and the authorized by $165,405." Mr. Valdes also told MCAP officers he has accepted the au- amount. Office of Economic Opportunity's "records are closed" on the Line items were: Federal costs per audit report - ' dit covering county psychological services for that year. "Closing Records" issues. $1,188,934; non-federal costs per report — $90,478. Total costs Item Besolved "Thus, we are closing our records covering program years. The letter, received here Friday, closes the issues raised by were tallied at-$l,279,412. Also for year "C" an item totaling $7,2M has been resolved A, B,C and D." Mr. Valdes'letter said. , the OEO Oct. 16 and followed by "a comprehensive audit re- Maximum federal expenditures, it said, should have been by the receipt of an MCAP check for that amount, the pro- The long-awaited audit has been a subject of controversy view of the past four years," according to an MCAP spokes- , $1,023,529, bringing about the questioned figure. gram chief said.' among members of MCAP's board of directors and was used man. Friday's communication from Frank Valfles, chief of the He said justification has been made for a formerly-ques- to intimate wrongdoings by opponents of City Council Presi- Last year's interoffice memorandum advised MCAP officers OEO management and support unit states: "Has been satis- tioned $1,535 excess in the "allowable budgetary flexibility'^ dent Wilbert C. Russell, who is also MCAP deputy director, that its three delegate agencies had "inadequate accounting fied — we have waived this requirement." for a'day ca,mp program during year "0" (last year). during last year's political race here for council seats. systems." The latest memo, however, states the issue has An $84,582 item was listed as "unaccounted for, unexpended Audit requirements for that program year were also ful- Mr. Russell and Joseph E.. Taylor, MCAP director, have been satisfied. funds -year 'A'," (1967). filled, Mr. Valdes said, by the auditor's "traditional expression both said the pending audit report from the regional OEO of- Resolved,' according to the OEO's Program, Management, Check Received . of opinion on the fairness of the fjnanriai statements" and by fice would show no mismanagement by the agency's person- and Support Division, New York Regional Office, are ques- Following a review, the program chiefs letter said,"... we an audit of components of a family planning program. nel. • tions, regarding nine specific issues, involving a total of have reduced the unexpended fund balance for this program The memorandum, justifies a $6,946 "unexpended, funds" An MCAP spokesman said yesterday: "... As you know, ^460,005 during the past four years, and which were the subject year to ?33,O08. We have received your check in this amount." item questioned last year due to receipt of a $3,935 check cov- MCAP was subject to a comprehensive audit review of the, of the recent audit. Also questioned last October were "unaccounted for" funds ering "adjustedunexpended funds" forthat year. past four years." He said the result of that audit has "satisfied Top Item Cited totaling $71,671 for year "B." , The 80 per cent maximum federal share rule, the memo any question OEO had about our agency." The largest item cited last October was a "questioned feder- Following a review, the program' chief said, "we have re- said, was exceeded last year by $74,593. It said documentation Neither Mr. Russell nor the MCAP spokesman were avail- al expenditure" of $165,405. duced the unexpended balance for this program year to zero.',' shows an additional $893 in state fund not originally included in able for comment on the federal agency's findings last night. mm?. School Aides Ex-Diplomat Mans Are Rehired Rumson Gas Pump ByJANEFODERARO So Mr. Wright drove bis car, a prized an- RUMSON - A retired diplomat, who put tique Jagnar, into Alexander Lamont's Mobil In Marlboro his morning coat and top hat in moth balls, Station at the intersection of Ridge Road and now pumps gasoline at a Rumson service sta- Avenue of Two Rivers. - ., •• ByJIMMcCORMICK Last night, a petition signed "I'd been baying gas there for years," he re^ MARLBORO- The Board by 901 residents protesting the tion. William p. Wright of Ridge Road, the man caHs/'and 1 asked Mr. Lamont if he could use 'of Education last night re- board's initially stated in- some help in the morning hoars. I've been newed the contract of David - tention was presented. It was who master-minded the 1945 San Francisco , Engebretson, principal of the Conference that launched the United Nations, working there every flay from 8 am. to 1 jun. clear, however, that the board a world traveller and former consul general ever since." " Central School at a yearly sal- had previously discussed the Mr. Wrigh% who waspresMentof tneChil- rjotJW^OOayear. who served under five secretaries of state, has matter and had decided to re- a view of retirement that, in his words, "gets drens Psychiatric Center of Monmouth County Also ttnewea were'lhe con- new the contracts), . back to fundamentals." for the past twoyears, lad sewed ioanomber tracts of Mrs. Verona Jones, Voting for the renewal were He says: "It's a funny thing people learn. of administrative government posts before bis as principal of me Morgan- board members Frank Cul- retirment. Vine SdHKtf at $13,650 a year, lens Jr., .Robert Granger, Al- If you want to be happy and busy, you don't find SUs. Dorothy McCuo, as keep trying to be the president of the corpo- HeadedOEM fred LaMura, Joseph Vota,. ration, or the big shot. He's the one who gets To tils early 'career, after graduating front principal of the Marlboro Vil- Dr. Charles Webber, and lage School at $13,550 a year. the heart attack..." Columbia College in New York City, he board President Robert Kra- At age 69, Mr. Wright went to work at the worked in various capacities with bis late •Both, as teachers, will receive mer. Abstaining from the vote (800 a year more to serve as corner Mobil station after having retired from friend Henry Morganthan, former secretary of were Dr. Richard Kammann, a top post in the state department in 1962. the treasury. Then, during World War II, he Norman Lunde, and Jonathan IHBoMonth During the past nine years, he and his headed the Office of Emergency Management Eoscnfeld. wife, Frances, have traveled around the world in Washington that was the largest service or- • This action came after a Register Staff Photo Hits Decision and spent their winters golfing in Rancho Ber- ganization of its kind. ' BOnthcf tense anticipation on Dr. Kammann, who chose BACK TO WORK—Wiljiam Di Wright, Ridge Road, Rumson, is retired the part of several township r nardo, Calif. After the war (and the historic San Fran- to criticize the decision, said counsul general who recently ended nine-year retirement to take job "But when we came back from California cisco Conference which he arranged), lie went residents. At the board's April that the. reasons for his point pumping gas in'local service station. Here he holds his bi-lingual Dach- 7 meeting, more than 200 resi- this time," he says, "I decided I was going to "into the field" for the state .department, cf view had nothing to do with shund, Perita, next to his antique Jaguar.' do something." (See Ex-Diplomat, Page 2) dents protested the board's Mr. Engebretson's ability or proposed action not to renew character. toe contracts of the three "I bear no malice towards principals. Board President Mr. Engebretson. I believe Robert Kramer said at that that he is courageous, sincere, and hardworking," the board had decideaTO^ta,renew the member said.. contracts, the decision was by Dr. Kammann said that he Shun Floating Nuclear Plant no means final, and thus was questioned the principal's out- open to further review. Marlboro, Page 2) ByBENVANVLIET • Mr. Azzolina said the idea for a floating power plant "is They toncheo) «n the poDntinn angto by saying fliat the The idea of a giant nuclear power station serenely float- probably good in some respects." ocean would quickly disperse any heat buildup from dis- ing off the Jersey coast doesn't hold much appeal for a num- . But, suppose we went to war? The enemy could knock us charged water, and that technical advances would result in ber of Monmouth County officials. right out of the box. Land power plants could be destroyed too, "near zero" radiation releases. Hippie Issues But, at. least one marine.ecologist thinks the concept of but they would be much easier to defend.