Missouri State Audit of Gasconade County Financial Statements Now Posted On Auditor's Website

Published by Dick Schaefer, Award-winning, Unpaid, Part-time Contributing Writer; Amateur Investigative Reporter; and Aspiring Photo-Journalist

Date:  11/15/2010
Post:  1,091

Finally, the long-awaited Missouri state audit report of Gasconade County financial statements has been posted at the Missouri State Auditor's website.  You can link to the report by clicking on the following URL:  http://auditor.mo.gov/press/2010-137.pdf.

The cover letter from Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee, reads as follows:

To the County Commission and
Officeholders of Gasconade County, Missouri:


The Office of the State Auditor is responsible under Section 29.230, RSMo, for auditing certain operations of Gasconade County, and issues a separate report on that audit. In addition, the Office of the
State Auditor has contracted for an audit of the county’s financial statements for the 2 years ended
December 31, 2009, through the state Office of Administration, Division of Purchasing and Materials
Management. A copy of this audit, performed by Casey-Beard-Boehmer PC, Certified Public Accountants, is attached.

Susan Montee, JD, CPA
State Auditor

A hard copy of the audit report was available to county officeholders just one week prior to the November 2nd general election.  Unfortunately, the county officeholders did not widely broadcast the results.  Did you see them publish the report in either The Hermann Advertiser-Courier or The Gasconade County Republican?  No you didn't!  Did you see any coverage on CNL?  No you didn't!  And let me tell you the reasons you haven't seen any coverage about the recently concluded state audit of the Gasconade County financial statements:  (1) none of the officeholders are especially proud of the audit findings and the deficiencies noted for their areas of responsibility and will therefore not be discussing the results in an open public meeting and (2) the news media in Gasconade County is not particularly aggressive in terms of investigating things that really matter like the job performance of our elected county officials!

So, comes now Hermann Hearsay, a poorly funded, lowly news blog, to finally inform the citizens of Gasconade County.  You should have had this important information prior to your vote in the general election on November 2nd, but it was difficult to reproduce 34 pages of the audit at this site.  I chose to wait until the audit report was public knowledge, i.e. officially posted to the public on the Missouri State Auditor's website.  Now you can just click on the link published above and read the audit for yourselves. 

If you will take the time to read the 34 pages of this audit, you will conclude that we need to make changes in Gasconade County!  Mind you that similar deficiencies have been noted in prior audits.  If you want to do some independent research, pull up the audits for 2002 and 2006.

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