Channelle Rogers, left, and Lontiasha Burress play basketball in the pool at the Brainerd Recreation Center. Watching is Dwight Turner, right, and lifeguard Tim Francisco.
Staff photo by John Rawlston/Chattanooga Times Free PressAn audit of city swimming pool collections found weaknesses and lack of control at several locations, including not always ringing up cash into the registers, charging higher rental fees than allowed by city code and letting documentation slip in contracts.
The swimming pools audit is the third negative audit of the Parks and Recreation Department in a year. The city’s pools take in about $25,000 to $30,000 annually, officials said.
But Mayor Ron Littlefield said last week he does not see the report as damning to the department.
“Anywhere where people pay there will be problems,” Littlefield said.
Parks and Recreation is a department that will always be audited frequently because it takes in so much cash in its various programs, he said. Plus, the audit shows how the Internal Affairs Department works with the city departments to make sure controls are in place.