LMUD OVERPAYS YET ANOTHER "LAW" FIRM
Duncan, Weinberg, Genzer & Pembroke's invoice was approved by Jaimee Richey. LMUD should wake up and start checking all invoices from Cady & Pardee. Although LMUD has at least four people that check these invoices before they go out, Stewart, Stewarts assistant Twitchell and a LMUD Board Member. This time it was a $2,730.36 overpayment....????? Who do you point the finger at for this incompetence? How much more of this is out there?
All legal invoices are approved initially by Frank Cady?
KWH ASKS SPIEGEL AND MCDIARMID TO RETURN MONEY TO LMUD
Frank Cady told LMUD to pay Spiegel & McDiarmid twice?????
KWH detected this overpayment through the Public Records Act.
LMUD Controller,
Bill Stewart pays law firm twice
Al Vazquez signed the check
Bill Stewart said he needed help, although no controller before him needed help with the accounting for this small utility. He couldn't do the work so LMUD hired an assistant for him.
This is LMUD's Accounts Payable Process:
1. Spiegel and McDiarmid's invoice is sent to Frank Cady.
2. Frank Cady gives it to Jamie Richey ? (she practices agricultural law)
3. Jamie Richey approves the invoice to be paid
4. Jamie Richey sends it to LMUD's Controller, Bill Stewart
5. Bill Stewart gives it to his assistant to process for payment
6. Evelene Twitchell approves the payment
7. LMUD Board of Directors sign the check
KWH requests LMUD's documents for this very reason, abuses and mismanagement and maybe incompetence
LMUD's business has not increased but has DECREASED. On May 1, 2004, 1000 customers were given to Fred Nagels, Plumas Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative. So, Twitchell and Stewart can not claim that they are busier....
Spiegel and McDiarmid is one of the many redundant law firms that LMUD has hired for Frank Cady. This firm and four others could have handled the latest contract that LMUD signed with Twitchells, Davis Power Consultants