Lee County Commissioner David Mulicka says there are no safety issues at Southwest Florida International Airport after a county audit raised concerns this week.<\/p>\n
Commissioner Pushes Back on RSW Audit Concerns<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to make sure the public understands that this audit from the (Clerk of Courts) should not cause any public alarm,\u201d Mulicka told Fox 4\u2019s Ryan Kruger.<\/p>\n
A 31-page audit from the Lee County Clerk\u2019s Office accused staffers with the Lee County Port Authority of \u201cintentionally impeding\u201d a county audit.<\/p>\n
Most troubling, auditors said they were unable to form an opinion on whether proper construction safety measures were being followed because they weren’t provided access to necessary documentation.<\/p>\n
“This refusal to provide records relating to the Terminal Expansion Project is a marked change in the relationship between the Port Authority and the County Auditor. For over 20 years my Office has fulfilled its Constitutional responsibility as the County Auditor for the Lee County Port Authority. The audits we’ve conducted in that time have resulted in significant cost savings, operational improvements, and even criminal prosecutions for fraud,” Lee County Clerk Kevin Karnes said in a letter to Port Authority Commissioners.<\/p>\n
But Mulicka says all the documents the auditors were trying to access are available.<\/p>\n
\u201cNobody is impeding or obstructing anything. You\u2019re just asking the wrong person the wrong questions. It\u2019s that simple. I don\u2019t appreciate staff being berating in a letter like that, saying we did something wrong, when it\u2019s clearly not true,\u201d Mulicka said.<\/p>\n
Clerk Karnes said the audit\u2019s findings were \u201cmostly positive.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Port Authority says they gave auditors all of the information they requested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lee County Commissioner David Mulicka says there are no safety issues at Southwest Florida International Airport after a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,24021,48538,48539],"class_list":["post-89848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee-county-commissioners","tag-rsw-audit","tag-southwest-florida-international-airport-construction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}