The city manager’s proposed 2014 budget presentation lets us know that in 2013 she transferred the chief financial officer (CFO) to work directly for the city manager.
Previously the CFO worked for the deputy city manager in charge of finance and management support services. The presentation tells us the deputy city manager position will be eliminated at the end of this budget year.
After all finance and management can be handled directly by the city manager and her lock-step CFO. That way any chance of independent review will conveniently be eliminated. Things can be a lot simpler when you don’t have to follow the rules. Remember that most of the poorly conceived or down right phony financial presentations relating to the ball park and city hall move have come from either the city manager or the CFO.
Word on the street is that the deputy city manager in question is being eased out (could it be that he disagreed with the financial presentations?) and will magically reappear as some sort of city consultant.
It looks to me like the CFO is being positioned as a possible replacement for the city manager. Watch out.
We deserve better
Brutus
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