Thursday March 8,  City of Chico finance mangler Scott Dowell will give a dog-and-pony presentation about how the city spends money. That ought to be a gas, but instead, I attended yesterday’s (2/28/18) Finance Committee meeting to hear a consultant explain the process of “cost allocation”. Dowell is disingenuous – who does he really expect to show … Continue reading City consultant: “more people, more payroll, more allocations” – this is how city of Chico management siphons money from the road fund into their own wallets