Jolene Ivey

It's, it's a little complicated, but just know that the council chair, Crystal Oreada, and council member Ed Burroughs, both were involved in having the council approve about a total of $7 million in contracts that ended up going to folks associated with them, and there were complaints.

Jolene Ivey and other people on the council called for a county audit.

Lots of questions were being raised about it endlessly, and now Council Chair Oreada and Council Member Burroughs have agreed to ask the comp- the, the non-profits to give the money back, which is kinda odd in itself.

You know, these m- there are legal rules about sending money out and, and then resending it, clawing it back and all of that.

And so yeah, they didn't have 990s, no documents, and so pe- it, people were saying this is unusual in so m- for so many reasons.

What does, what does she say, what does, uh, Oriahgbe say about this? Because, uh, Jolene Ivey, who's one of her political opponents on the council, is asking for an audit because you're getting the money and there's no clear way this money's gonna be spent.

It just looks like it's been handed over like freebie money.

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