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By Jay King
HOMETOWN NEWS
The external audit of the former Spartanburg County Parks Commission and its spending practices related to the construction of the Tyger River Park revealed widespread problems with compliance to spending policies, the county council and public learned last Wednesday.
Stan Halliday of McAbee, Talbert, Halliday & Company briefed the council on his firm’s findings and started by saying that the former commission was a commission in name only despite language in the 2006 ordinance creating the commission which gave the commission certain fiscal powers and responsibilities.
“As far as we can tell, the only thing that was done was to create the commission,” Halliday said.
Halliday added that all disbursements for the now defunct commission went through county administration. The remainder of his presentation detailed numerous instances where such disbursements failed to follow county policies and procedures. He also explained that there seemed to be a lot of confusion regarding procurement policy among parks and county administration staff stemming from the language of the ordinance creating the parks commission.
“We do know that people within the county were concerned with how things were being done,” Halliday said. “From what we heard in many cases the administration said, ‘Just do it.’”
Halliday cautioned that in addition to serious compliance issues within parks, the same issues are or were present in other areas also.
For the rest of the story, read this week’s Spartanburg County News.
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