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Citizen offers to fund audit; commission steers request to public-records route
Summary
A resident offered to donate money to pay an outside audit focused on construction projects; commissioners declined to accept a donation with strings and advised that the citizen pursue a public-records request or seek outside review instead.
A Lynn Haven resident, James Finch, told the commission he would fund an audit of construction work on the city building and the sports complex and named a private contractor he preferred. The commission did not accept a donation directed to a specific auditor. Instead, after legal counsel explained procurement rules, commissioners advised Finch to file a public-records request for the records he wants to review or to commission outside work on his own.
Finch addressed commissioners during public comment and reiterated an offer to pay $25,000 for an audit focused on building and sports-complex…
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