City of Wilton Manors Employees' Gross Mismanagement of a Parking Management Services Contract

Our investigation showed that the City’s former Finance Director, Robert Mays, and the former Finance Director who succeeded him, Pennie Zuercher, failed to sufficiently scrutinize Lanier’s invoices from April 1, 2019, through June 30, 2022, the period of our review. Neither finance director ensured that Lanier’s reports of revenue it collected on behalf of the City, which totaled $2,942,099.83, were accurate whencompared to Lanier’s deposits into the City’s parking bank account, which totaled $3,056,220.00. In addition, we calculated that the City paid at least $108,093.11 in questionable expenditures when the two former finance directors approved reimbursements to Lanier of $77,589.36 for inadequately documented employee wages and another $30,503.75 for unauthorized expenses.