He was leader of the council at the time of the Blobbygate scandal and subsequently was deseated by the Greens at the 1999 council elections, although a later report by the district auditor cleared councillors of maladministration.
32.
Liverpool councillors were advised in late August 1985 by the District Auditor that the council was about to break its legal obligations and would not be able to pay wages to its staff by December of that year.
33.
Along with other councils who had set no rate, Camden was sent a statutory report by the district auditor Brian Skinner on 9 May giving them until the end of May to set a rate or face an extraordinary audit.
34.
Superintendent Sid Thompson said the salary restorations will be paid for from $ 162.4 million that school district auditors have identified as available in the district's $ 4.2 billion budget for the 1994-95 fiscal year.
35.
The next day, the District Auditor Brian Skinner wrote to all councillors in authorities which had not yet set rates telling them to do so without delay and certainly before the end of May deadline given by the High Court in the Hackney case.
36.
""'R v District Auditor No 3 Audit District of West Yorkshire MCC, ex parte West Yorkshire MCC " "'[ 1986 ] RVR 24 is an English trusts law case, concerning the certainty of trusts, and their administrative workability.
37.
On 19 April the council was warned by the District Auditor Brian Skinner that the Judge's decision in the Hackney case not to require the council to set a rate did not give Greenwich the same leeway, but on 24 April the council again refused to set a rate.
38.
Although the District Auditor's investigation cleared him of any wrongdoing, it was critical of the flaws of the system he implemented, which meant that council executive members were never sent invoices for such expenses and so didn't check the actual amount that the council was being charged.
39.
After being advised by the District Auditor that the council would be unable to pay wages after November, the Labour group on the council decided in September 1985 to issue ninety-day notices to the 30, 000 strong workforce Militant said the redundancy notices were a " tactic " to buy time.
40.
The district auditor criticised the closure decision as " poor value for money . " The district auditor Anne Shore felt that " reasons given for immediate closure were less than comprehensive . . . insufficient attention was given to the financial consequences of either the recommended or alternative options . " The Evening Standard reported that
