The Martin Chronicles has talked with multiple sources who confirm that councilman Mike Pope abruptly cancelled last week's Villa Hills finance committee meeting because the city's books are in total disarray. These same sources tell us that the two clerks Mayor Martin hired are largely responsible for the financial chaos. This despite the shocking fact that the taxpayers are on the hook for a combined $62.50 per hour for these two inept Martin cronies.
Just how bad is it? We have dispatched a couple of folks to keep an eye on the Villa Hills city building to see if Pope, Martin and $47.50 per hour bookkeeper Cordelia Schaber conduct a secret finance meeting in a desperate attempt to patch some kind of jury-rigged financial report together to present at the upcoming council meeting.
The Martin and Pope promise to the council and taxpayers that the financial reporting would be as simple as "pushing a button" by August 1, 2011 seems like a very distant memory. So does the time when the people in Villa Hills heard the truth from their city government.
