In 2024, Richardson & Company, the external auditor for the El Dorado Hills Community Services District (District), faced public scrutiny over missing capital assets in Serrano Lighting and Landscape Assessment District No. 17—a 30-year-old assessment district that the District publicly referred to as a “shell.”
In this audio clip, Serrano HOA President Chris Nicholson makes it clear that he wants my concerns about the ongoing issues caused by the Serrano HOA only billing homeowners for the maintenance of CSD public property—to be ignored.
In this episode, the El Dorado Hills Community Services District (CSD) is exposed for improperly forming a districtwide Community Facilities District (CFD).
In this episode, we revisit the actions of El Dorado Hills CSD’s CFO, Teri Gotro, and the controversial “Terri Tax.” After years of non-compliance, CFO Gotro has finally taken steps to meet legal requirements by completing an annual SB 165 report for the CSD’s Community Facilities Districts (CFDs).
This installment dives even deeper into El Dorado County’s mismanagement and misreporting of Mello-Roos funds in the Serrano Community Facilities District (CFD).
In this episode, we explore a significant oversight discrepancy by El Dorado County’s external auditors, who missed critical details in the County’s custodial funds. This lapse becomes glaring when compared to the audit of Monterey County, conducted by the same auditing firm.
The County’s initial deposit report appears to be seriously inaccurate. In today’s update, Harn sheds light on a 2004 County resolution that delegated the management of the Serrano Mello-Roos funds to the Auditor-Controller’s office, without any additional public oversight.
A contentious Public Records Act (PRA) battle, dragged out over five months and nine extensions, has finally forced El Dorado County (EDC) to make a stunning confession: the 135 currently planned dwelling units at Serrano Village D1 are actually zero.
