FORT THOMAS, Ky. (WKRC) — Leaders in Northern Kentucky’s third-largest city are trying to reassure residents after two separate audits found poor bookkeeping that led the city to write off more than $700,000 in spending for which it cannot fully account.
Mayor Andy Ellison, in his first interview since the issue became public, said the audits confirmed longstanding problems with the city’s financial record-keeping.
“It just solidified how poor the record-keeping had been. We knew it had been; with how bad the record-keeping had been, it wasn’t a surprise,” Ellison told Local 12 in an exclusive one-on-one interview…