At the City and County of Denver
At the City and County of Denver |
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WORK HISTORY |
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LEFT BECAUSE
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An unsurpassed opportunity arose to expand Pangnostics Systems into Southern California
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An extensive range of services is provided by the City and County of Denver. These include the public school system; public safety (police, fire and building inspection); highway, bridge and street construction and maintenance; health and welfare services; culture, parks and recreation; planning and zoning; general administration; and the City's international airport. The City and County of Denver also provides water and sewer services for its citizens and for all the neighboring municipalities on the front range of eastern Colorado. The Auditor's Office is a fiscal control agency independent of the Mayor, City Council and Denver Public Schools. The Auditor is an elected official; the City Charter makes it clear that the Office of the Auditor is to serve as a check and balance on the activities of the other Charter agencies. Your applicant exercised signature authority over all city payment warrants. Your applicant exercised primary day-to-day responsibility for the application of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) to all aspects of the financial administration of the City and County of Denver, overseeing $1.3 billion of general fixed assets, a $325 million annual budget for general government, and a $257 million annual budget for the Denver Public Schools. This entailed the ability to successfully navigate and resolve conflicts arising from competing interests that were both internal to the City and County of Denver (such as budgeting scarce resources among the more than 127 city agencies) and external to it (various state legislative and executive agencies, and federal agencies exercising prerogatives directly related to the city's financial affairs). As recent events on the national scene amply demonstrate, the day-to-day expert application of GAAP is voided of meaning if there is not also someone who has a clear-cut and ultimate responsibility for assuring that an agency is in compliance with laws and regulations related to the management of the agency. Your applicant exercised special expertise in the application of the maze of laws and regulations relating to the financial responsibilities of the Office of the Auditor.
Your applicant provided day-to-day leadership, supervision, and oversight for the eight functional sections of the Auditor's office and their supervisors: contract compliance, payroll, voucher control, information services, labor law compliance, audit and accounting, administration and law. This necessarily entailed being willing and able to share oversight and leadership responsibilities for the integration of agency functions to achieve the mission of the Office of the Auditor. As the recommendation letter from the Auditor states, he also frequently delegated your applicant as his liaison with neighborhood, local, state and federal agencies, your applicant acting as his trusted representative.
The previous achievements of your applicant amply demonstrate that past auditors and other city officials were able to rely on him for the performance of extraordinary special assignments that required a high degree of authority and coördination, often far above and beyond the normal call of duty. Your applicant also exercised responsibility for managing, controlling, budgeting, supervising and planning for the following functional areas. These are listed only by way of example, and not intended to be an extant list of all the areas in which the applicant worked during the seventeen years he spent with the City and County of Denver: |
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