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Common Sense :  10/25/2009

If a town or city expends public funds -- generated either through taxes or business fees -- that town or city should account for how those funds are used in the form of an audit report. If a town cannot account for how the funds are used, perhaps that town should not take in public money.

Windsor :  10/25/2009

I live in Windsor and I figure we have three choices. If we have 100 adult citizens then it breaks down like this. 1. Each of us put up $50.00 to get the audit done. 2. Each of us put up $7.92 to make up for the short fall in funds we would get from the State. 3. Tell the State to buzz off. The more burning question for me is where did they send the request for the audit. You see our Town Hall as other citizens have told me was the Windsor Recreation center. Well remember that 1 cent tax that got put on all of us about 14 years ago? There was a vote 7 years ago that extended it. Those funds were suppose to go in the order listed to projects in Aiken County. Well the Windsor Recreation Center was one of them and all they have done is tear down the building and bulldoze the land several years ago. Time might be better spent by the State investigating where the money went and by our Mayor and this paper putting this question to the Aiken County Council. We might want to ask were all the funds to study and drawn up plans for a New County Complex went and why we are now considering reworking the Old Aiken Hospital as the County Complex. Any one awake at the switch here in Aiken County?

Editorial? :  10/25/2009

Previous reporting in the Astd seemed to indicate that Windsor was preparing a report that could be used in lieu of a full blown audit. It seems the premise of the editorial may be misinformation, or perhaps previous reporting was in error.