Comments on: People’s Settlement Final Report Released

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:55:18 +0000

The people who need to do right by the city are the people at the PSA. No one has audited me to find that I can’t account for money appropriately. The subject here is the PSA, and their failure of leadership.

By: Nancy Willling

Nancy Willling — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:42:07 +0000

Actually dearie, if you read through the presser that I sent to geek and the audit response you would know what’s going on that is taking us forward at this agency and that we been working like hell to ensure that PSA is on track.

And I implore you to call the people mentioned above. Call them and get back to me. For real. Do it. OR STFU. Don’t insult the people of this state by pretending to give a crap about what is going on if you don’t want to pick up the phone and get the information you obsess over. It it at your fingertips.

This is hardly dillusionary. It is very real and I do implore you, especially as some one who espouses a leadership position among the civic associations of the City of Wilmington. You are not in some kind of a mask here. People know who you are, Cass. You need to do right by the people in your city.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:45:36 +0000

I’m not the one digging a hole.

And I’ve read the attachment from your attorney and it is more of the usual handwaving — not much different than what you do in talking about this issue. This is not about a single board member, it is about an ENTIRE Board as well as an ED that is persistently failing this institution that ought to be leading in this community. And persistently failing on the BASIC stuff — like accounting.

So you are quite free to gin up whatever delusions you need to live with and you are free to lie to yourself about what got said here in this thread, but there are not many here who will join you in either behavior.

By: Nancy Willling

Nancy Willling — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:39:23 +0000

btw, call the AG while you are at it. Do. Really.

AND geek can also clear up any illusions as to who is NOT responsible for writing the above anony posts.

He can verify, one way or the other, that it is not who anon4 is saying. That’s what geeks are good for among other things.

How much was spent on this audit

By: Nancy Willling

Nancy Willling — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:34:23 +0000

I am under the advisement of professionals in the legal community, so there won’t be much left for me to say here. But PHEW. Cass.

Puhlease. Why don’t you go ahead and call Collin O/Mara, Call Michele Taylor, give a good read of our lawyer’s comments that can be found in the attachment to the audit before you further dig that hole you are digging in your seeming hatred of a certain PSA board member.

I am sending our presser to geek whose email I have at the ready so he can forward it to you. Read through it. Make some calls and get back to me.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:55:43 +0000

anon@11:08 is pretty clueless here — the PSA has had lots of time and opportunity to rebut Wagner’s charges and have not done a particularly good job at it. And I’m sure that the United Way did give the PSA a heads up that their funds would be cut off — especially since they couldn’t get any assurances of good custodianship of their money, either. Wagner found what was there to find — he didn’t create any of the PSA’s incompetency. The PSA did and they should man up, own it and get it fixed. What they do is crucial and they have been definitely slacking on this front — because they can’t get their economic house in order. (And they don’t have a particularly ambitious or visionary Board or ED.)

By: anon4

anon4 — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:21:55 +0000

“Anon”=Keith Lake or some Lakey lackey. If there are untruths in the report, refute them or STFU.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:08:27 +0000

cassandra_m is really hating on PSA. She doesn’t have a clue,they help a lot of poor people. Just keep reading Wagner’s report and repeating what you read, doesn’t mean he is factual. There are lots of untruths in the report that she has no idea about. He was on a seek and destroy mission. Have you ever heard there are two sides to every story. I have in sides on this one. As for United Way they were reducing PSA’s funds for 10 years, wanting PSA to utilize more of their own funds, PSA knew for years that last year would be there last with them. UWD President makes over 170,000. cassandra_m needs credible sources to speak against PSA…

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:33:46 +0000

This is not about making the state whole — it is also about decisions about future funding. And then what do you do about the grant funds repurposed for operations? And how about the deliverables (required by the grant) not met or partially supplied? Or the 10K for cash that the AG is reviewing?

These people brought this completely upon themselves — there is much in this audit that should have been just plain basic operating procedures.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:16:50 +0000

Yes. But the state could be made whole with a check for $10K. Not worth a years-long siege. That shows a hidden agenda.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:11:19 +0000

Well now you are reaching and exposing that you really haven’t been involved with non-profits — state grant funds (a do private ones too) come with contract T&Cs that require you to agree to audits as they see fit. And Wagner’s job is to see that state funds are accounted for and used as proposed. People would like to see him do more of that, rather than less.

By: anon

anon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:04:59 +0000

Correction: use of the state funds is definitely in scope for Tom Wagner. I thought you meant non-State grants. I don’t need to be inaccurate.

But the total amount Wagner identifies as misused stands at $10K.

I thought this part was especially ugly. After alleging that $42K was misused:

Due to the quality of the records that supports the expenditures of the GEGS program, it would not be cost effective to determine how the entire advance payment of $42,648 was spent.

Reminds me of Commandant Lassard from “Police Academy” after the famous podium scene:

LASSARD: What do you intend to do about Mahoney?
AIDE: What’s he done?
LASSARD: l’ll tell you what he’s done.
AIDE: Yes, sir?
LASSARD: He did a very, very bad thing.
AIDE: To whom, sir?
LASSARD: To whom?
AIDE: Yes, sir.
LASSARD: Well, l don’t know.
AIDE: Are you all right?

‘

By: anon

anon — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:54:42 +0000

There are also still questions re: grant money paid directly to the ED; using grant funds for daily operations (not for programming); incredibly poor accounting; repurposing grant funds and so on. Mostly all true, it seems. However, that is not Tom Wagner's problem.

By: cassandra_m

cassandra_m — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:47:44 +0000

There are also still questions re: grant money paid directly to the ED; using grant funds for daily operations (not for programming); incredibly poor accounting; repurposing grant funds and so on.

By: a.price

a.price — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:45:38 +0000

still no link, still a lizzy liar