After recently circulated city employee embezzlement rumors led the Red Boiling Springs City Council to vote to contact the State Comptroller’s Office last month to inquire about a city audit, Dennis Dycus, Director of the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury, Division of Municipal Audit, responded via E-mail to the city’s request.

Dycus’ response, which was presented to the council during its regular Nov. 13th meeting, is as follows:

‘As you already know, the city’s financial affairs are audited by a public accounting firm which contracts through our office to perform said audits. With a staff of only 19 people, I do not have the personnel or financial resources to perform financial audits of local governments in Tennessee. The only types of audits we do perform are those related to fraud, waste and abuse. Unless there is specific evidence of such, I must respectfully decline your request for the reasons stated above.’