As per sources inside the regional's administration, the examination includes claimed ill-advised expenditure of government and state awards.
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — The city of Williamsport's funds are as of now being explored by the Pennsylvania principal legal officer's office, as per two sources inside Williamsport City Hall.
The sources say that agents are investigating spending by the city somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2019. During that time interval, the city and River Valley Transit, the nearby transport framework, were lumping every one of its accounts into one pot and not monitoring where every dollar came from or what it should be utilized for.
They say state and government award cash that was given for River Valley Transit may have been utilized for other city projects outside of transportation.
William Nichols Jr. was the city account chief and the administrator of River Valley Transit during the time-frame covered by the examination. Nichols was terminated in January of a year ago.
PennDOT gave a huge number of dollars in awards to River Valley Transit somewhere in the range of 2009 and 2019.
Our sources inside Williamsport City Hall say that PennDOT as of late cautioned the travel framework not to utilize award continues for something besides their lawfully qualified purposes.
What's more, our sources say that PennDOT has asked the Federal Transit Administration to research if any of the award cash was spent unlawfully.
In December, the city raised local charges to help delete a shortage in the 2021 spending plan. The increment adds up to about $50 for a normal property holder.
IN a composed articulation not long before that spending plan passed, Williamsport Mayor Derek Slaughter said:
"I have connected with different government offices that have given and keep on giving critical subsidizing to our city, including, yet not restricted to, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) and the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) for audit, suggestions, and activity."
We contacted PennDOT for more data, and they got back with this reaction:
"PennDOT can't remark on any interior audit or any potential outside law implementation examination."
The principal legal officer's office additionally would not remark on any examination including accounts for the city of Williamsport and River Valley Transit.
William Nichols Jr. didn't react to our endeavors to get in touch with him. At the point when we requested that Mayor Slaughter remark, he alluded us to the principal legal officer's office. Despite the fact that his assertion in December said that there is a current circumstance that precludes the organization from uncovering certain issues.
Newswatch 16 will keep on checking the progressing examination and will give more subtleties to this story as it creates.
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