The $28-a-Ton Secret: How a Treasurer Bled Towns Dry
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The $28-a-Ton Secret: How a Treasurer Bled Towns Dry
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A hidden invoice taped to a pallet exposed a $28-per-ton gap in road salt prices that had been siphoning money from a dozen townships for nearly six years-how did nobody notice until a church volunteer found folding chairs in a rented storage unit? What started as a cooperative meant to save small towns became a private income stream, and the crucial clue was an unlocked door and a misplaced document.
In this episode, we tell how a township treasurer built a county-wide purchasing cooperative, how purchase numbers diverged from supplier quotes, and how persistent record requests and meeting minutes eventually forced the question nobody had answered: who benefited from the price spread?
Person: Douglas Dalton
Person: Lauren Zimmerman
Location: Millhaven Township administration building laundry room
Date: June 11, 2019
Event: Cooperative billing discrepancy discovered
- The supplier quote Dalton obtained in fall 2013 was approximately $55 per ton.
- Dalton billed twelve municipal governments at $89 per ton, a $34 difference from the supplier quote he circulated and $28 higher than the invoice found taped to the pallet.
- Dalton served as Millhaven Township treasurer since 2010 and was elected five times in a row.
- The administrative fee Dalton authorized for the cooperative was $1.50 per ton.
- The crucial original Clearwater invoices were stored in a metal filing cabinet behind a back door with a reported broken lock.
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