The accounts payable and warrants include from October 2008 to and including January 2009. I researched every account and warrant I could using general ledger numbers and descriptions that didn’t tell me the reason for the expenditure. I wrote out 5 pages on columnar pads I couldn’t figure out or approve.

This equaled roughly 150 questions. I went into depth to unravel Stage Coach Days, Attorneys, Investigators, Consultants and anything that had a description of “Miscellaneous Services.” These really bothered me since some of the amounts were in the $20,000 - $30,000 range. It took me all weekend to go through these payables and warrants, leaving me Monday and Tuesday to study up on the other agenda items, along with their 200+ pages of information so I could be properly prepared for the meeting.

At the February 24, 2009 meeting I asked to pull consent items #4 and #5. I asked my question about the fixed base operator (consent item # 4) tied to the proposed airport work to correct drainage. I received an answer and moved onto consent item #5 (accounts payable and warrants approval).