Twice the City of San Angelo conducted investigations into potential malfeasance, $6 million in unauthorized billings by the city's trash hauler Republic Services and the unapproved purchase of over $100,000 in Water Department furniture for the renovated City Hall. Neither document is signed. It's not clear who conducted either investigation. One is undated while a date appears to be in the title of the other.
Both documents are brief, one page for the Republic unauthorized charges investigation and three pages for the Furniture Fiasco. San Angelo Live sought more information on commercial trash over billing, while I researched the furniture debacle.
Oddly, Water Chief Will Wilde's leaving in the wake of the furniture situation made room for Ricky Dickson, a key player in long term trash unauthorized billing. City Manager Daniel Valenzuela chose to promote Dickson five months after the trash fee revelation. Did he know at the time that Dickson had been made aware of the over billing in 2011? That would've required a thorough and competent investigation.
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