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In order to determine the extent of City Hall’s financial discrepancies, an internal audit process has commenced. It will see financial documents for a number of years being scrutinised.This is according to City Mayor, Hamilton Green, who revealed that while the recently disclosed Auditor General report focused on 2007 it is believed that the mishandling of the municipal financial resources significantly exceeded that period.At a recent meeting with staffers, Mayor Green said that Internal Auditor, Ms Una Williams, had revealed that even in 2006 she had detected some startling inconsistencies in some financial documents.Mayor Green said that while Ms Una Williams fulfilled her duty when she presented the information to Town Clerk, Ms Beulah Williams, the Town Clerk declined to address the matter, even choosing to render it insignificant.Deputy Mayor Robert Williams said that the Council, as a corporate body, observed as far back as 1997 the inadequacies of the Treasurer’s Department including un-audited reports dating back to 1987.And in an effort to address the situation,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, the Auditor General’s Office was invited by the Mayor by way of letter dated January 13, 1997 to support the engagement of a private consultant.According to the Deputy Mayor, the Auditor General in a letter dated February 13, 1997 noted that Council’s Financial Statements were fundamentally flawed and in a grossly inadequate state and thus requested as a matter of urgency, that Council deal with the situation with promised support.Mr Williams said that in 1998 the Council sought and obtained from the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) the attachment of a Consultant, Mr David Hall, under a special programme to review the operations of the entire Treasurer’s Department and provide recommendations.After this was done, Mr Williams said that a report was submitted and recommendations approved at a statutory meeting of May 4,Cheap NFL Jerseys China Wholesale, 1998.He pointed out that some of the recommendations which were approved were brought to the attention of Council on August 7, 1998 which was due to the inordinate delay of the Administration to implement them.The Council in 2002 then ventured to engage the services of Sandar V. Jones Associate in an Institutional Strengthening Programme signed on March 28, 2002 and including among other things an assessment of the Treasurer’s Department.The report, Mr Williams said, formed part of the overall submission for the programme by the Consultant, but no change was effected.In 2005, after constant complaints by the Finance Committee, Council recruited the services of another consultant, Lynch Associated Limited, to ensure that the Treasurer’s Department was in a position to satisfy the requirements of the Auditor General in the preparation of Financial Statements from 2001-2005.The resulting report was again approved by the Council for implementation,NFL Jerseys China, Mr Williams added.He said that Council each year for at least two subsequent years sought the intervention of the office of the Auditor General in order to ensure that procedures for accounting for the New Year were in order.In essence he said that it was the assistance of the Auditor General’s office that aided the Council’s preparation of its Budget during the highlighted years.According to Williams, the municipality had engaged intense measures to streamline the operations and capabilities of the department to deliver its mandate in keeping with established practices that are deemed consistent with the municipal by-laws.However, it was after the Auditor General was invited to engage a special investigation covering the period January to December 2007 that immense discrepancies, implicating both the Town Clerk and City Treasurer Roderick Edinboro,Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping, were detected.They have since been sent on leave,Cheap Hockey Jerseys, pending further investigations.In order to uncover any suspected prior discrepancies Green said that the council will be thoroughly scrutinising its documents.He is of the belief that attempts were made recently to tamper with evidence which could reveal how vast the problem is.Reports last Saturday suggested that the office of the Internal Auditor was broken into.According to City Mayor Hamilton Green,Wholesale Authentic NHL Jerseys, based on information arising from the investigation, he was informed that the lock was tampered with.He disclosed that the office houses all documents reflecting the financial status of City Hall, some of which were instrumental in the compilation of the recently disclosed Auditor-General Report.And even as the process continues to verify the extent of the discrepancies, Mayor Green revealed that Ms Yonette Pluck will perform the duties of Town Clerk while Mr Andrew Meredith will take up the reigns of City Treasurer.Mayor Green revealed that during a meeting to update staffers of the developments at City Hall, a commitment was made to obey the rules and procedures of the municipality.