CA Town to Spend $6.4M on Monitoring Tech

Pasadena plans to spend $6.4 million on new financial management software to improve monitoring efforts

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By Jason Henry

San Gabriel Valley Tribune

PASADENA >> After losing $6.4 million to an embezzlement scandal rife with human error and subterfuge, the city is turning to technology for salvation.

The price tag for its technological overhaul already matches the cost of the theft, but the new financial management software could succeed in providing the monitoring its human counterparts once failed to do.

Not only will the city’s new Tyler Munis software shore up loopholes and deficiencies that former Public Works employee and pastor Danny Wooten allegedly exploited, it’ll note and report irregularities automatically.

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