Robert Schmid wrote: >When Jana was ED her goal was always to "leverage" funds between >funders. By that I mean that rather having one funder pay for a single >project she would allocate funds from multiple funders. The new CNIA administration replaced the old admin. in May 2000. It is unfortunate that the defeated party and the old executive director contacted the private funders (Honeywell, James Ford Bell, McKnight) making the new CNIA board appear "unstable" and unable to handle any grants that may be offerred. In addition to this problem, there appears to be 110K missing under the previous administration (Pres. Roxana Orrell and husband, Treas. Robert Schmid). Many financial and organizational documents were stolen from the office immediately after the May 2000 election (a police report was filed). This, along with a lawsuit filed by the old ED against the organization, made it difficult for the current administration to function properly. Mr. Schmid was asked to sign documents for the release of previous bank statements, however, to this date Mr. Schmid has refused to sign these documents. Michael Hohmann wrote: >If an official audit of CNIA, performed by a recognized, competent, >independent auditor (i.e. the state auditor as part of NRP process) >documents misappropriated and/or missing funds, those vested with fiduciary >responsibility/authority at CNIA during the periods in question should be >held fully accountable and prosecuted according to the law. Michael Atherton from Prospect Park wrote: >Since this money is controlled by >Bob Miller, he has become a "third force" in city politics and the NRP is >a monolithic program that will be very difficult to control or dismantle. Mr. Miller and Mr. Horan (the area manager for NRP) were contacted regarding the missing funds from CNIA. They were asked to assist in finding, prosecuting and holding the previous admin. accountable for this money. To this date, nothing has happened. Coincidentally, Mr. Horan is a good friend of Jana Metge (previous ED). This example of what has occurred in CNIA only reinforces my belief that the NRP process is ineffective and that too much power lies in the hands of a few people. Note: I do agree with Annie Young that Central issues should be kept in their own bedroom. I'm also tired of seeing the CNIA org. details on this forum. I simply saw this issue more pertinent to NRP, which is a city issue. Therefore, I commented on it on the forum. Basim Sabri Central/Whittier/Lowry Hill East _______________________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - Minnesota E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
