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Auditor’s office wins award for financial report
Press release from the Butler County Auditor’s Office:
Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds has received awards of outstanding achievement from the Government Finance Officers Association of the United States and Canada for the two county financial reports produced by the Auditor’s office and submitted for review in 2008.
Both the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report and the Popular Annual Financial Report for the year ended Dec. 31, 2007 met the stringent requirements of the GFOA for award recognition.
“Awards are nice but what is more important to me is that we run a professional, efficient office for the taxpayers of this county,” said Auditor Reynolds. “What these awards signify to me is that the professionalism I expect from not only my staff, but myself as well, is reflected in our work on these financial reports.”
The Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting Program recognizes those state and local governments that go beyond the minimum requirements of generally accepted accounting principles to prepare comprehensive annual financial reports that provide transparency and full disclosure.
Reports submitted to the CAFR program are reviewed by selected members of the GFOA professional staff and the GFOA Special Review Committee, which comprises individuals with expertise in public-sector financial reporting and includes financial statement preparers, independent auditors, academics and other finance professionals.
The Popular Annual Financial Reporting Awards Program recognizes individual governments that are successful in extracting information from their CAFR to produce a high quality popular annual financial report specifically designed to be readily accessible and easily understandable to the general public and other interested parties without a background in public finance.
Popular annual financial reports submitted to the PAFR Program are reviewed by selected members of the GFOA professional staff and by outside reviewers with experience in governmental accounting and financial reporting.
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V’s nightclub to lose liquor license
Things are not getting better for Rawnica Dillingham and Joe Ruscigno.
V’s Nightclub in Hamilton — owned by former Butler County commission candidate Dillingham, who is accused of violating Hamilton’s adult entertainment ordinance, and Ruscigno, who is accused of tax obstruction — could lose its liquor license.
Here is the story in today’s paper:
Three nightclubs called problem spots by police may lose their rights to sell alcoholic beverages.
The City Council approved a recommendation Wednesday night, April 8, to deny the renewal or transfer of liquor permits for Bob’s Cafe, 666 Hooven Ave., Tailg8tor’s, 1079 Millville Ave., and V’s Nightclub, 1483 Millville Ave.
The denials are based, in part, on police records that show the bars continue to be a problem for police, said city police Chief Neil Ferdelman.
Liquor permits were denied last year for Bob’s Cafe and Tailg8tors, based on the city’s objection, but the revocations are being appealed. Ferdelman said the bars continue to serve alcohol and police continue to respond to fights and noise and property damage complaints.
Officers have responded to 87 incidents at V’s Nightclub since May 2008, Ferdelman said.
The majority of those calls were for fights, he said.
City Manager Mark Brandenburger cited the Feb. 24 arrests at the club of four exotic dancers, who allegedly violated the city’s adult entertainment ordinance, and of V’s co-manager Rawnica Dillingham, who is accused of not having a performance area clearly defined and separate from the patrons.
Brandenburger also cited the legal troubles of the bar’s other manager, Joe Ruscigno, a former finance chairman with the Butler County Republican Party and husband of Dillingham, who unsuccessfully ran for a county commission seat. He recently was indicted on federal charges that he misrepresented the profits of a business to the Internal Revenue Service.
The City Council is expected to approve a resolution on the permit denials at its next meeting. The resolutions will then be sent to the Ohio Division of Liquor Control and a hearing will be scheduled, said Hillary Stevenson, the city’s law director.
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