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Taxpayers group urges Bakersfield to commission outside performance audits of homeless services
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Michael Turnipseed, representing the Kern County Taxpayers Association, urged the Bakersfield City Council on March 12 to commission outside performance audits of vendors that provide homeless services.
Michael Turnipseed, representing the Kern County Taxpayers Association, urged the Bakersfield City Council on March 12 to commission outside performance audits of vendors that provide homeless services, saying recent reporting and audits in Los Angeles and Los Angeles County show weak financial controls and poor tracking of outcomes.
Turnipseed told the council that an audit ordered by a federal judge in Los Angeles and carried out by consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal found the city there could not track spending to specific homelessness outcomes, leaving the system “vulnerable to…
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