I had a good chuckle with our man of the numbers, Mr. Salmon:

“We passed on auditing BT because we didn’t want to be in a political crossfire,” Salmon told VTDigger. “We have a long history of patiently standing by. But they [city officials] don’t understand that they are not exempt.”

Sure wish he could use that judgement of not wanting to be in the ‘political crossfire’ when it comes to VY and other such policies…

Full read on Burlington getting a smackdown by the state auditor over on the Digger:

http://vtdigger.org/2012/02/19…

Mr. Hoffer has responded to the article, and perhaps JV or Doug will post something far more intelligent than I can about what the State auditor is trying to do by getting into the muck of local politics here in BTV.