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Resident urges forensic audit, alleges secrecy in North Ridgeville administration
Summary
At the Dec. 1 North Ridgeville City Council meeting, resident Robert Baumgartner accused city leaders of hiding records, questioned engineering-contract emergency clauses, and called for an independent forensic audit covering contracts, personnel and finances; another resident urged clearer procurement practices.
Robert Baumgartner, a North Ridgeville resident, used public comment at Monday’s council meeting to sharply criticize city leadership and call for an independent forensic audit of municipal operations.
“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true,” Baumgartner said, then described an earlier internal workplace investigation he said exposed a hostile culture in the city’s public-safety ranks and leadership failures that persist. He said a senior officer has since left and that morale remains low.
Baumgartner alleged that engineering firms and…
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