Housing authority auditing contract discrepancies

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The Knox County Housing Authority will audit a number of vendor contracts that were agreed upon between April and July. Those vendors provide things like paper products as well as general services.

KCHA Executive Director Derek Antoine told the board of commissioners today that some members of staff were not verifying pricing on invoices as they should have been.

“We took a look at our overall purchasing to make sure that we were buying from the right folks and that we were paying the right prices and things like that and ultimately we basically discovered some discrepancies up and down, so to speak,” Antoine said. “In terms of purchasing from procured vendors that we weren’t being billed the correct pricing. We were overcharged in some aspects and we were undercharged in other aspects.”

Antoine says employees have been corrected and he feels the issue should have minimal impact financially.

“If we’ve been overcharged we’re going to make those payments and make sure we’re paying contract price,” Antoine said. “If we’ve been overcharged, we’re going to seek those refunds and get that needle back to zero, so to speak.”

In other news, the board agreed on a new one year contract with a two-year extension option for attorney Jack Ball. Ball was the sole bidder to provide legal services. Antoine says construction work on both Bluebell and Moon towers remains on track to be finished in the coming months as well.

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