They Stopped Digging
By Mitch Berg
The Highland Park District Council’s news is worse than previously thought:
The Highland District Council owes the Internal Revenue Service and the state of Minnesota more than $69,000, about twice as much as previously thought.
About half of that is in back taxes starting as early as 1998, said Tim Puffer, the treasurer of the community council. The other half covers interest and penalties.
The group likely will hold a special meeting next week to discuss hiring an accounting firm to sort out the financial problems, said board president Bill Poulos.
I’m going to try to make the meeting. I’ll run a stopwatch to see exactly when the “P” word – partisan – is broached the first time.
“We’re trying to get a better handle of what this figure is,” Poulos said. “As it stands right now, our liabilities exceed our assets.”
Looks like “partisanship” will do the District Council system a world of good.
June 20th, 2007 at 10:25 am
It would be interesting to see what these people do for a living. To ignore something as basic as employment taxes seems odd for anyone who has ever run something (small business, successful self-funded non-profit, etc).