Investigation into Conference Center Spending

The Coffee County Public Building Authority (PBA) could have avoided a state investigation into fraudulent spending, as well as several negative audit findings, if members had reviewed any number of “alarming” bank statements, according to Delanna Rhoton, CPA, with the accounting firm Bean, Rhoton and Kelley.
Rhoton met with PBA members Friday to discuss audit results of the Manchester-Coffee County Conference Center, which has operated at a deficit since its construction in 2003.
The conference center saw an operating loss of $301,329.01 in the 2014-15 fiscal year, one of the worst losses to date.
A special investigation is being conducted by the Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury.
The losses came under then general manager of the conference center, Alyce Heifner. She has since resigned. (Tullahoma News)