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CONFIDENTIAL Notes to myself re: Supplemental Public Records Request for specific Financial Statements, FYs 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19

Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. <supremelawfirm@gmail.com>

Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 5:18 PM

To: SupremeLaw <supremelaw@googlegroups.com>

Bcc: bcodell@co.douglas.or.us

 

Notes to myself:

 

Normally, by observing standard accounting principles,

the Ending Fund Balance for any given Fiscal Year

should equal the Beginning Fund Balance for the

next following Fiscal Year.  However, that is NOT

what we find by arranging 5 years of summary data from

Douglas County's published financial statements:

 

                      Actual        Adopted        Adopted        Adopted        Adopted
Fiscal Year:         2015-2016     2016-2017      2017-2018      2018-2019      2019-2020
                    ------------  ------------   ------------   ------------   ------------
Beginning Balance:  $152,081,934  $125,167,386   $115,515,640   $118,136,120   $130,115,000
Ending Balance:     $150,603,732   $88,924,387    $79,658,212    $92,160,762    $91,416,510

 

 

We have conveniently color-coded the totals that

should be exactly equal.

 

(Think about your personal checking account:

if you fall asleep instead of celebrating on New Year's Eve,

your current balance at 11:59:59 PM should be exactly equal

to your current balance at 12:00:01 AM.  The "ending balance"

one second before midnight should exactly equal the

"starting balance" at one second after midnight.)

 

In the real data shown above, approximately $25.5 Million

do NOT show up in the Beginning Balance for FY 2016-2017

($150.6 - $125.1  =  $25.5M).

 

This discrepancy is so very large, in context here,

it calls for a thoroughly accurate and defensible justification.

 

 

Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Private Attorney General, Civil RICO: 18 U.S.C. 1964;

Agent of the United States as Qui Tam Relator (4X),

Federal Civil False Claims Act: 31 U.S.C. 3729 et seq.


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---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S. <supremelawfirm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 4:43 PM
Subject: Supplemental Public Records Request for specific Financial Statements, FYs 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19
To: <tjhowell@co.douglas.or.us>

 

Greetings Ms. Howell:

 

Thank you again for your timely recent assistance.

 

We have now done a careful search of the Douglas County Internet website.

 

However, that search did not locate any instances of the following

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING (also attached in .gif graphical format):

 

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We are writing this time to request directions for locating

the same or similar NOTICEs at Douglas County's website.

 

If no such NOTICEs are presently archived at that website,

kindly reply via email with correct electronic copies of the

comparable NOTICEs or STATEMENTs which show

the "Actual Amount" of total revenues, total expenditures,

beginning fund balances and ending fund balances

for each of the following Fiscal Years:

 

FY 2016-2017

FY 2017-2018

FY 2018-2019

 

We presume that the BEGINNING FUND BALANCES

showing on the Adopted Budget FY 19-20 are accurate:

 

 

If the latter presumption is not correct, please advise.

 

Also, for your information, the statements we have already examined

justify an inference that "Adopted Budgets" are later revised to produce

"Revised Budgets";  and, "Revised Budgets" are then followed

by "Actual Amounts" at year end, as shown above. 

 

To illustrate, compare the "Actual Amount" as shown above (inside red oval) with

the numbers shown under the column heading "Revised Budget FY 15-16" here:

 

 

 

We look forward to your timely professional reply.

 

Thanks again, and do have a wonderful day.

 

 

Bcc:  Douglas County Sheriffs, Public Information Officer

 

 

Sincerely yours,
/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.
Private Attorney General, Civil RICO: 18 U.S.C. 1964;

Agent of the United States as Qui Tam Relator (4X),

Federal Civil False Claims Act: 31 U.S.C. 3729 et seq.


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