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Audit finds Saugus water funds misused

By Kathy McCabe

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 06, 2012

A new audit has found that Saugus officials violated municipal finance laws by using water and sewer revenues to pay $1.4 million in employee wages, benefits, and other unrelated expenses, and did not seek public bids for hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of public works repair projects over the past two years. The town tapped water and sewer funds to pay the salaries of 3½ positions in the public works and cemetery departments.

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