Questionable Audits at the Courthouse
Taxpayers are footing the bill for 'experts' who have done little but drain the county treasury.
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The county commissioners are still paying experts fifteen dollars a day to ferret out errors in the county's books and discrepancies in accounts that may have occurred within a period of six years. The experts have been engaged at their task since last April, and as they have a good thing, it is likely that they will work it to the limit. In violation of the agreement, most of the work has been done by subordinates, the principals being after bigger game in Baker City, Portland and elsewhere. So far as has been given out, the experts have discovered nothing worth mentioning.
“As they have a good thing, it is likely that they will work it to the limit.”
Accusations of government waste, consultant bloat, and the outsourcing of work to 'experts' remain a common theme in local political discourse, illustrating the timeless friction between the taxpayer and the bureaucracy.
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