After his demand to be named the national “Secretary of Auditors” on Tuesday, a revisit to the world of Audit Them was in order as we take a look at his most recent audit featuring the city hall of the small town of Monee, Illinois.
The YouTuber was muttering to his camera as he entered the small building, immediately noting that he did not see a posting of the town’s total operating budget, or a block diagram “for total subdivision.”
Again, muttering into his camera and preparing to give the town low grades on his self-made checklist, he approached a woman at the front counter with his complaint that both the block diagram and the total operating budget needed to be on display per state statute or immediately be distributed to a person who asked for it.
After briefly looking at his paperwork, the woman excused herself and asked him to wait in the lobby. Waiting a few minutes where he examined the bathroom sign that indicated the bathroom was a “family bathroom,” Audit Them jokingly complained that they would soon have to remove the male and female figures from the sign as they were not reflective of same sex couples.
The auditor was met by Ruben Bautista, the Village Administrator, who listened patiently to Audit Them’s complaints and indicated that he could find most of the things he was seeking online. After Audit Them persisted and explained with the implied threat that “today, I am in the roll of a citizen…” did Bautista get the hint and began to gather the information Audit Them was seeking.
After a long delay, Bautista returned with parts of the information that was requested, directing the YouTuber to a magazine that contained part of the information. Audit Them again explained that everything he had requested was required by the statute to be displayed openly in the lobby and to be available “immediately” on request, not the extended period it took to find the information.
After working with Bautista, Audit Them said he would be back to check in thirty days to see if the city would pass his checklist. When Bautista asked for a copy of he checklist or to see the checklist, Audit Them refused to provide it to him, indicating that it was secretive.
Bautista said that he would get the information posted to comply with the requirements of the state. Audit Them then pledged to himself that he would not file a negative report to the Illinois Secretary of State about the lapses just yet as he ended the live stream.
