Residents renew calls for EMS board president to resign
The most generous thing bewildered residents within the Indian Lake EMS District could say is that at least no one on the board appears to be stealing from the place.
Still, opportunities for abuse abound amid the absence of even basic daily financial controls, Indian Lake area residents and public officials asserted again Wednesday in a regular meeting of the EMS district.
A report submitted Wednesday by a newly-formed finance committee revealed the same haphazard bookkeeping practices that previously caused Indian Lake EMS to be declared “unauditable” by the Ohio Auditor of State in 2014. The same practices have led to dozens of material deficiencies within the ambulance district’s regular audits since its formation and have trickled down to monthly expenditures and routine office purchases.
“There’s money going out of this organization that we can’t say for sure was authorized by this board,” said Thomas Hendel, who presented the report Wednesday on behalf of the two-week old finance committee.
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