Thanks to even-handed governance and an eye ever-turned toward vigilance, the City of Dallas has showered fictitious prisoners with 2.2 million dollars! Still, those hundreds of teachers we fired over a budget shortfall probably had it coming anyway!
According to the audit, the city hasn’t revised that agreement since 1997. And the agreement doesn’t account for “actual jail operating expenditures,” the audit stated.
So even as the number of city prisoners in the jail has fallen, from more than 85,000 in 2006 to about 61,000 last year, the city’s costs have increased.
Had the city revised its agreement with the county to tie costs to the number of prisoners held, it “would have save the City $2,161,787 from Fiscal Year (FY) 2006 through FY 2008,” the audit stated.
People, this is exactly the thing that will make Tom “Leppert” our Supreme Leader in Dallas.
