Westfield mayor sues clerk-treasurer for access to city’s financial information

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5 thoughts on “Westfield mayor sues clerk-treasurer for access to city’s financial information

  1. This is completely different than a corporate audit. The communications director does not understand independence. An auditor can not audit a company and help create the books. As such an auditor can not audit a company and represent the client in a valuation or other such engagements.

  2. It’s official, Westfield now has the most dysfunctional city government in all of Central Indiana. All three parties, our Mayor, Clerk Treasurer, and City Council should take a long hard look in the mirror regarding each of their contributions to this expensive and embarrassing mess and then get in a room together and do what we pay them to do – act like professionals and find a way to work together in the best interests of our community, without hiring more lawyers, without further indulging all of these overblown egos, and without the unproductive personal attacks. It’s like watching my kids arguing and then all them saying “he started it” as if that absolves them of any responsibility for their own participation in the escalating dysfunction. It seems the party of personal responsibility in Westfield has become the party of blaming the other guy or gal and kicking the can down the road. If they want to participate in that kind of nonsense they should run for Congress. No workplace would allow this kind of childish behavior from professional colleagues, why are we accepting it in Westfield? We should demand better from all of them!

  3. I agree with David G. But ALL layers of government seem to operate this way now. That’s why nothing productive ever gets done, and nobody can move forward. There is no compromise whatsoever. Its the “what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours in mine” two year old mentality.

  4. I agree with Chris, David and Karen. I would like this to all go away, and finish the examination, quit asking attorneys who seem to be partial to their own pocketbook and just do what is right and let full transparency be evident. This is a complete waste of taxpayer dollars.

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