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Resident urges open audit of city community funds during public comment
Summary
A member of the public pressed the council to audit Community Care Program (CCP) funds and questioned transparency around multi-million-dollar awards to local organizations.
Bob Willoughby used his public-comment time at the April 8 Fort Worth City Council meeting to call for an open audit of the city’s Community Care Program (CCP) funds.
“There's millions of dollars that go on out,” Willoughby said, urging the council to make the program’s records available and to allow an audit. He told the council he believes some awards are handled behind closed doors and said he was unable to obtain a clear accounting of recent large grants.
Willoughby repeatedly asked the council to open an audit and said that, in his view, the current oversight arrangement prevents meaningful public review of where funds have gone. He referenced perceived discrepancies in amounts granted to organizations and criticized the lack of transparent auditing for those expenditures.
The public-comment period concluded without council action on the request; the council proceeded to its scheduled agenda items. Willoughby’s remarks were recorded as part of the meeting’s public-comment docket.
Ending The request for an open audit of CCP funds was raised to the council during public comment; no immediate council motion or staff reply committing to an audit was recorded in the meeting minutes.
