Ann Arbor in Better Shape;
Dely Pleads No Contest
A new audit of the Ann Arbor (Mich.) District Library shows that cost-saving measures and money borrowed against future tax revenue have nearly eradicated the library’s $1-million deficit discovered in January. The Rehmann Robson accounting firm also confirmed in its September 18 report to the trustees that financial records are being kept correctly for the first time in years.
The library’s actual fund deficit was only $79,000 on June 30, about $111,000 below projections. “It’s a credit to the staff and board who worked so hard to get it down,” Trustee J. D. Lindeberg said in the September 19 Ann Arbor News.
Much of the library’s deficit was allegedly the result of mismanagement by ex-finance director Don Dely, who entered a plea of no contest September 19 to three charges of embezzling more than $123,000 from the library, each carrying a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison. Dely’s attorney told the News that the plea, which cannot be used as an admission of guilt in any civil proceeding, was entered because of the library’s pending lawsuit against him.
Posted September 25, 2000.
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