Time for an audit

March 23, 2016

To the Editor,

Further to the letter published in your paper on March 11 I agree completely with Bob Tatarsky and in fact I feel very strongly that it is high time that an independent audit of the Hastings Highlands council’s finances especially regarding where the money went that should have been spent on garbage collection.
I would ask that Bancroft This Week circulate a petition to make this a reality. Something stinks and it isn’t just the garbage.

Ray Ducharme

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