Why does it matter if the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority pays too much for faucets or awards no-bid jobs to agency cronies? It’s because federal tax money – our money – is what keeps them in business.
Buffalo City Comptroller Mark J.F. Schroeder is pushing for an outside firm to conduct an annual audit of the agency’s purchasing. He’d like the BMHA to pay the cost of the audit – which he estimates at $50,000 – but says the city should pay if the agency can’t.
Schroeder proposed the idea this past week in a letter to the Common Council. The Council should embrace the idea.
Gillian Brown, the BMHA’s interim executive director, told The News he is working to improve the agency’s internal auditing. Brown, who took over the job in March after the resignation of…
