Quarrelling City Officials Find Moment of Love on Valentine's Day

Voice of San Diego ^ | February 15, 2005 | Andrew Donohue

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Perhaps inspired by the bouquets of flowers and pink heart-shaped balloons that bobbed in the hands of delivery boys through the corridors of City Hall on Monday, opposite arms of city of San Diego leadership embraced each other after a week of quarrels to agree on a key step in extracting the city from its financial freeze.

The heralded agreement comes in the form of one person: Lynn Turner. He is the former chief accountant of the Securities and Exchange Commission, and his singular task is to combine a series of separate investigative reports and work with the city's accountants, KPMG, to release the long-delayed 2003 fiscal year audit.

On hold since last year because of questions surrounding the culpability of errors and omissions in the city's bond disclosures to investors, ...

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