A.G. Gancarski
Former Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown is gone from City Hall, but not forgotten, if WJXT’s latest slab of anti-Brown red meat is worth noting.
The issue this time: inventory control. $4.3 million of city property was lost from 2010 to July 1, 2015. And a big part of the reason? A lack of a meaningful inventory control system, the type you might see at any normal business.
“Each city department is required to do one inventory once a year. The city property officers are responsible for overseeing this process, as well as filing police reports. Any item valued over $1,000 is supposed to be physically tagged with a sticker and assigned an index code,” the report says.
Easy peasy, except when protocol is not followed.
Each city department is required to do one inventory once a year. The city property officers are responsible for overseeing this process, as well as filing police reports. Any item valued over $1,000 is supposed to be physically tagged with a sticker and assigned an index code
”There should be a sticker on there, and there’s not, I don’t see one,” said Crescimbeni, while searching for a city sticker on his own computer
Crescimbeni said tickets that help to keep track of city property are not being used or sometimes they rub off the equipment and aren’t replaced.
Crescimbeni historically has not been a fan of the Brown administration, but he doesn’t levy the specific charges in this piece.
Instead, that role is left to Lenny Curry spox Marsha Oliver.
“Based upon our review, it’s apparent that the previous administration did not at all, conduct any of the inventory management practices. They did not follow municipal code 122, when you look at it, you have missing assets that show up in an annual report,” spokeswoman Marsha Oliver said to WJXT.
That code requires yearly inventory checks, and such checks if a departmental head moves on.
David Hunt, who has the unenviable role of handling such questions from the media, pushed back.
“Mayor Brown left office more than eight months ago,” Hunt wrote, “and it’s disappointing that anyone would continue to cast blame on him for ongoing city issues when the truth is the Brown administration worked hard to enhance accountability throughout city government. It should also be noted that a great number of items listed relate to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s office, Jacksonville Public Library and courts, independent branches of government which a mayor does not oversee.”
This is not the first inventory issue related to the Brown administration. Recall the case of the missing prepaid debit cards from an employee incentive program, the loss of which was registered last year.
The Inspector General is still on that case. Looks like he has another one in what appears to be a series of them.
