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WECRD Expenditures For Last Fiscal YearPosted Sunday, January 24, 2010, at 10:41 AM
Your Money-Money-Money...Money!
The figures listed below came off of the WECRD "Profit & Loss October 2008 through September 2009 and printed on 12/23/09 at 11:01 AM." These are unedited and complete. Income Bequests: $7,487.01 Rental Income: $4,300.00 Investment Income: $13,295.94 Misc. Income (Donation): $275.00 TAX REVENUE: $416,122.41 Total Income: $441,480.36 Expenses Community Involvement Programs: $1,886.27 (AFAD cost the taxpayers $1,833.15 which is in this number) Advertising and Marketing: $3,246.43 Cleaning (of WECRD Office): $2,197.21 Contract Labor: HUD Requirements: $12,637.20 Planning: $18,934.50 Contract Labor-Other: $3,841.00 Total Contract Labor: $35,412.70 Dues and Subscriptions: $628.00 Financial Services Audit: $3,300.00 Banking Fee: $10.00 Insurance and Bonding HUD Requirement: $500.00 Insurance & Bonding-Other: $1,736.00 Irrigation: $800.00 Legal: $16,275.05 Licenses and Permits: $185.00 Misc.: $18.68 Office Supplies: $1,754.36 Payroll: $6,839.83 Payroll Taxes: $1,846.14 Elections: $6,040.59 Postage & Delivery: $1,734.87 Printing and Reproduction: $5,973.88 Rent (of WECRD Office): $8,079.00 Technology Software, etc.: $22.89 Equipment & Fees: $2,996.35 Labor: $8,981.00 Total Technology: $11,970.24 Telephone & Internet: $2,497.46 Travel & Meals: $102.03 Utilities: $3,180.40 TOTAL EXPENSES: $116,214.14 NET INCOME: $325,266.22 So, to break this down a bit. The WECRD had $2,197.21 to pay a person to clean their offices. The WECRD had $1,833.15 to spend on AFAD 2009. The WECRD had $250.00 for a membership (Gold Patronage) to give to the MH Arts Council---BUT VERY LITTLE FOR THE YOUTH OF OUR COMMUNITY! The WECRD received $416,122.41 in tax revenue and "donated" a mere $295.00 towards ACTUAL recreation for this last fiscal year! They "donated" back to the community the following: MH Parks & Recreation: $95.00 (Summer Concert) MH Parks & Recreation: $95.00 (Sponsorship of "pool party") MH Arts Council: $250.00 ("Gold" Patronage Membership) MHHS: $200.00 (this wasa $600.00 donation to cover three (3) years. DECLINED Donation Requests: MHHS (Spring 2009) because they had already dontated as indicated above. David Freer/Elmore County Youth Baseball: REQUESTED 10% of WECRD budget for ALL youth activity programs---not just ECYB. THE WECRD DONATED NOTHING!!! City of MH- Request made by Councilman Geoff Schroeder and Russ Anderson to partner with the City of MH on a walking path directly across the street from the WECRD property (at the MHJHS). DECLINED or did not respond. A bit offensive to the hard working, taxpayers of Elmore County? I certainly hope so. This recreation district was created to support the people of this community---in RECREATION! Well, it would appear that it is a recreation district that mostly supports the arts, which is against the law under the laws with respect to a recreation district and what a recreation district can or cannot do. Kind of like charging a member of the public $70.00 for "labor" for 42 pieces of paper containing mostly current financial information. WASTE-FRAUD-ABUSE! Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
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I have a couple questions What is the rental they are getting income from?
What is the investment they are getting income from?
What is the labor amount for technology? What did they have worked on?
Telephone and Internet 2,497.46 is this for 1 year?
They rent the back portion of the property to a farmer to grow hay. The figure that you see is for the 2008 farming season and the 2009 farming season. In other words---2 years of rental income but all of the money came in in that fiscal year.
They have our money invested in some sort of a Government investment pool.
Technology is for their computer person which is not the same person as their web person. The technology person takes care of everything with respect to their computers. The P & L does not tell us what they had done/fixed, etc. For that info someone would need to go into their office (Tues.-Thursday, 10:00 AM-2:00 PM and ask to see their documentation on that.
The cost for phone and internet is for the fiscal year---October 2008 through September 2009.
Hope that helped.
Thank you for answering my questions...... Yes your answers helped. It's hard for me to swallow the cost involved for telephone and internet and the cleaning of the office.
Their office must get really messed up and dirty to pay that kind of money for cleaning:(
Are you allowed to ask questions at these meetings?
Good thing they didn't charge you to retouch the documents... I'm sure there are some "wrinkles" in there they didn't want you to see.
Coatings, you are a hoot! Thank you for the laugh today, I needed that.
Yes, public comment is on their agenda for tonight, which I picked up. Public comment is limited to 3 minutes but times may need to be adjusted based on the number of people who sign up to speak.
Interesting meeting for tonight. They are going to cover their building use policy (which they violated) and the Document Request Policy & Form (since they violated that as well). They will also discuss the audit as well. Under executive session (closed to the public) they are going to discuss with their attorney "pending litigation or controversies not yet being litigated but imminently likely to be litigated."
There are other fun things listed as well. Please note their new loacation as well. Meeting is at 7:00 tonight at their office. Please---come one come all!!! We promise a night of great entertainment and a photo for your desk upon departure (if you want one that is).
Is the photo going to cost me 700 MORE dollars?? That is just so absurd. I have four children all of which would love to have some recreation.
So other than goto a meeting what can we do to get this thing moving and on the right track?