In the aftermath of a state audit released last week, Union Township trustee Barb Wiedenbein, in a special meeting held Aug. 20, said that the township will be changing the way it operates.
The state audit has raised ethical questions about payments for engineering work awarded to Batavia Professional Group, a company owned by Mark Walker, the son of former township administrator Doug Walker, who was terminated only two days before the audit was made public.
Wiedenbein, who called the special trustee meeting, said that more jobs were being examined as a result of the state audit that revealed that the township officials have bounced checks and “misclassified” millions of dollars in their accounting procedures.
The audit revealed that $2.1 million was posted to the wrong line items in 2005 and 2006, including tax revenues, cable franchise fees, and intergovernmental revenue, and the township bounced 20 checks for insufficient funds in its Mastercard bank account (which in turn cost taxpayers $500).