Campbell finance director under fire

CAMPBELL

Faced with criticism from city council, Mayor Nick Phillips says Finance Director Michael Evanson is on schedule to reconcile the city’s books.

Fourth Ward City Councilwoman Juanita Rich and council President George Levendis suggested during a June council meeting that Evanson should be fired over what they described as his failure to keep council informed on the city’s coffers and, specifically, to reconcile the city’s books in a timely fashion.

Most recently, Rich sent a formal letter dated Monday to Evanson requesting bank reconciliation reports from December 2013 to present. Rich requested the reports by Friday.

Rich wrote, “I am concerned because, while you generally inundate Council members with voluminous amounts of paperwork, I have yet to receive from you even one monthly one report proving you have completed the bank reconciliations for that month.”

Evanson responded to Rich’s letter Thursday with reconciliation reports from December 2013 to 2015. Missing were four months of reconciliation reports from May to September 2015. Evanson wrote that, though those months have been audited, the records had been misfiled.

Read more of his remarks in Saturday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.