An audit of the Guillory Administration’s last year in office found a $17 million overdraft for detention ponds built outside the city limits – that was covered by the city’s bond construction fund and its earnings.
Auditors wrote that “does not appear to be within the intent of the sales tax dedication,” and it was one of several new and older findings related to the detention pond projects and how they were paid for.
The audit, which was posted today , looks at how the city’s business was conducted while Josh Guillory was Mayor-President in 2023, but the responses are from the current administration of Mayor-President Monique Boulet. The work on the audit began in January, right after Boulet was sworn in.
There were multiple findings from prior years that hadn’t been taken care of before the fiscal year ended in October 2023, as well as several new findings by auditors. If you want to read the audit for yourself, scroll down.
Another new finding says that some people were receiving LUS Fiber packages that either were being billed at a lower cost than they should have been – or weren’t being billed at all. Providing services for free is a violation of the state constitution, auditors noted.