Audit Shows Mismanagement of Collapsed Aid Agency

Money spent on alcohol and massages, and tens of thousands of dollars in checks stowed in a cash box and on the ousted executive director's desk—that is some of what an audit of the Associated Community Action Program (ACAP) has found, according to a Oakland Tribune report.

ACAP had been the vehicle through which all the cities and unincorporated areas of Alameda County (except for Oakland and Berkeley) provided required services to poor residents until it was discovered early this year that it was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. In March, the agency's governing board .

The Tribune report goes on to note that the audit faults a lack of oversight by the 13-member board—which included Councilman Jeff Wieler as Piedmont's representative when the agency started crumbling—for enabling the alleged spending abuses being attributed to former executive director Nanette Dillard.

Read the full article at insidebayarea.com. 

Piedmont has so far paid out more than $100,000 in reserve funds for its share of the costs related to the failure and dissolution of the agency. City Administrator Geoff Grote told the Municipal Tax Review Committee Aug. 17 that the city could expect to pay as much as $100,000 more, in part to cover the defense of a lawsuit that has been brought by Dillard.