Audits Completed at Ford City Sewage Authority

Nearly four years of accounting records have been accounted for following an extensive audit at the Ford City Borough Municipal Sewage Disposal Authority.

“We had problems with our old auditor,” Authority President Terry Tokarek said. “We got the records from his office, and got another auditor, and our audits are done through 2008.  2009 is being done now.” 

Authority Vice-President and Ford City Council member Lou Vergari said that the delay of auditing the books was an internal problem with their former auditor and not the Authority.

“When he first started out, it was fine,” Vergari explained. “Then they kept changing our account to another person to handle. It kept getting delayed and more delayed. Finally, we just called them and said we were coming to pick up our records and to have them ready.”

The Authority then hired Merge & Hill, P.C. Certified Public Accountants from Tarentum to audit records from 2005 through 2008. CPA Richard Hill said that he was in the process of working on the 2009 audit, but declined to give a date it would be completed.