Something fishy in accounting water
A wise point as usual from Chris Briem today: with the city battling with both of its fiscal oversight boards over its refusal to contract with the county's financial management system (saying it wants to join a water authority accounting system instead) doesn't that go counter to Ravenstahl administration claims of supporting city-county consolidation?
Unmentioned is some of the odd story behind the PWSA's own accounting system. Mentioned here 6 months ago, was some passing news that the PWSA wanted to ditch its use of software from SAP (that would be the largest business software company in the world by the way), for a company with 1/10th of 1% the number of employees, and it seems an even smaller proportion of experience in this market. Beyond the elusive logic of that, remember the city fully supports city-county consolidation.. something that getting some synchronicity between the two governments' accounting would necessitate.