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Residents demand clearer accounting of the city’s supportive-housing payments; council agrees to monthly expenditure reports
Summary
Public commenters told the council that Dignity Moves has been drawing from a $5.9M deposit and that some contractor payments are not visible on the city’s warrant listing. Council asked staff to prepare monthly (or quarterly) expenditure updates for the permanent supportive housing project and to add an agenda item summarizing those expenditures.
Public comment at the March 10 Ojai City Council meeting focused on financial controls and transparency tied to the city’s supportive housing work. Commenters, including a budget-committee member, outlined errors and control weaknesses the budget committee has flagged — late or missing bank reconciliations, contract payments exceeding not-to-exceed limits, understaffing and insufficient multi-year forecasting — and warned the council the city is at…
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