Non-Profit Deemed High Risk Half-Million Dollars In Questionable Spending Agency Slated To Receive Stimulus Dollars

The state of California Office of the Inspector General reports:

A Bay Area agency slated to receive Federal Recovery Act dollars has been deemed high risk and may owe the State over half a million dollars in unacceptable expenditures.

"The State's Department of Community Services Department (CSD), as well as the County and City of San Francisco, have done an exemplary job in identifying serious problems with the Economic Opportunity Council of San Francisco (EOCSF)," said California Inspector General Laura Chick who was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to oversee the spending of the state's stimulus funds.

The Economic Opportunity Council was due to receive $159,000 is stimulus dollars to perform weatherization projects in the community.

"The CSD has deemed the EOCSF high risk and has taken immediate action to stop the impending transfer of stimulus dollars," continued Chick. "However, this issue now rests with the Federal Government to determine if the State is required to not only continue to fund this agency, but also to give it Recovery dollars. As we saw on Wall Street, there needs to be a line in the sand when it comes to inappropriately spending taxpayer dollars."

The lack of "altruism" from some non-profits!