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Public calls for DDA audit after questions about downtown grant spending
Summary
A resident asked the DDA to order its own financial audit after raising concerns that roughly $15 million in state downtown funds were spent differently than intended; city officials said a forensic review of an enhancement grant is underway and Jay said DDA finances are audited through the city.
Scott Westfall, a longtime Adrian resident, urged the Adrian Main Street Downtown Development Authority at its Nov. 12 meeting to order an audit of the DDA's finances, saying "it seems this money was spent in very different places than it was originally intended" and citing what he said was more than $15,000,000 in state-funded downtown work that raised accounting questions.
The concern followed recent resignations of the DDA's former chair and treasurer. "These abrupt…
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