Part of an $11 million stimulus grant intended to provide business attire to 400 low-income job-seekers instead helped only two people, according to an audit of the city’s Department of Human Services.
The audit, conducted by the city’s auditor general for the period from July 2009 to September 2011, found the department failed to control the operations and finances of a boutique that was to provide the clothes. The department did not safeguard grant funds or create an inventory for the clothing, the audit found.
“The DHS was only able to provide the auditors with two referral forms signed by two clients documenting that they received clothing from the boutique,” the audit said. “Eligible Detroiters are not being served with available clothing being stocked in the boutique.”
The department did not give a reason for not reaching the goal of providing 400 people with clothes. That figures! I think most of the money went into politicians pockets.
Perhaps Detroit’s Department of Human Services is a training ground for Department of Energy clean energy loan officers. I mean, they must have got their training somewhere, somehow to be so adept at giving away our money.
And assuming the entire $11 million was earmarked for the job seeker “service center,” even if they met their goal of helping clothe 400 people in business attire, that would have still worked out to $27,500 per person. Where did they plan on taking these people to shop? Oscar de la Renta? This ridiculous wasteful liberal government spending has got to stop!
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