Campaign Disclosure Mary Harris Cathy Hood Rio Linda

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Harris & Hood Form 460 amendment filed 10/30/02:
Cover Page
Summary Page
Schedule A - Contributions Received
Schedule E - Payments Made
Schedule F - Accrued Expenses (Unpaid Bills)

Preface

In response to the letters received from the Registrar of Voters on October 24, 2002, candidates Harris and Hood filed an amended disclosure that amends the original disclosure for the period January 1 to September 30, 2002.

The amended disclosure was filed on October 30, five days before the election. This disclosure was originally required by law to be filed on or before October 5, 2002.

The seven amended pages are below. Many errors are corrected, and additional minor errors are added, showing further inattention to detail and an apparent inability to follow simple instructions.

The disclosure of Accrued expenses still contains a major error that shows their inability to follow simple instructions and perhaps a lack of understanding of simple financial terms. They don't seem to know the difference between accrued expenses (debt) and current payments.

The amendment of this disclosure creates errors in the disclosure they filed for the following period, October 1 through 19, 2002.

They have now identified the source of the previously missing $400, Troy Hood Trucking. They have clarified their outstanding debt as of September 30 to be $460, not the $560 previously reported. They have not explained how their outstanding debt seemingly vanished between September 30 and October 1 and was not mentioned in their October 1-19 disclosure filed on October 24, 2002.

Jay O'Brien
October 30, 2002

Below is the California Form 460 Schedule E - Payments Made, as amended October 30.

Below is the California Form 460 Schedule Accrued Expenses (Unpaid Bills), as amended October 30.

Note Harris and Hood's inability to follow simple instructions:

Summary line 1 should be $1460, the subtotal of column (b), not $2067.65.
Summary line 2 should be $1000, the subtotal of column (c), not $1607.65.

The figures they entered here are Total Cash Payments made and Total Expenditures made, not debt incurred and debt paid as directed by the instructions on the form itself. How can these people be expected to understand the complex accounting and budgeting of the Water District if they can't even get this simple form correct the second time around?
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