In report sent to the city on Friday, May 11, the state said Curtis Webb, who helmed the Bemidji event center from late 2012 until April 2016, made a misuse of public funds in the amount of $110,681. That misuse included improper payments made directly to Webb; Webb using city funds for non-business items, and payments made by Webb that had little to no documentation.
Webb was an employee of VenuWorks, the Ames, Iowa-based company that manages the Sanford Center for the city.
After Webb left the Sanford Center in April 2016, he took a similar position at another VenuWorks facility in Bloomington, Ill. However, he was fired there in October 2016 after issues of misuse of a company debit card came to light, which triggered an internal audit of Webb’s spending there and in Bemidji by…
