NDP calls for SWSDA audit... $1 million-plus unaccounted for

5jan2009: NDP calls for SWSDA audit... $1 million-plus unaccounted for...

Shelburne County MLA Sterling Belliveau called on the Office of the Auditor General on Monday for a full provincial independent audit of the South West Shore Regional Development Authority’s handling of the sale of the Sandy Point sound stage and the boys’ school.


“The residents of Shelburne have been calling for an audit for more than a year,” says Belliveau. “The questions being asked are not going to go away. Residents want, and deserve, to know that the money from these sales will be utilized within Shelburne County. It’s time for the Auditor General to step in and investigate this situation.”

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Lockeport Mayor Darian Huskilson, former SWSDA executive member and outspoken critic of some of the business practices of SWSDA, told SCT that, any politics aside, there has been considerable public interest in "getting to the bottom of a murky situation." Huskilson added, "the public has a right to have a full accounting of public monies."

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