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What has changed in this investigation?

This log records the development of the story. Earlier entries describe the status at that time; they do not mean the current live story is unpublished.

  • September 26, 2026 — reader-flow revision: added topic-specific titles, introductions and transitions; made the next reading step prominent; retained the eight-section structure and source links. Applied to the published pages September 26, 2026. The Seven Rivers introduction adds the council association’s program description. Recent office-location leads are not presented as established County support.
  • September 26, 2026: added readable source pages and a spreadsheet companion; replaced the two Seven Rivers PDF-page references with reading pages containing checked account transcriptions and upright source images. Original PDFs retained. No change to the underlying evidence findings.
  • September 26, 2026: reviewed the supplied September 17 Priority Questions & Evidence Brief. Added account-specific questions to the spending page and strengthened DAAC funding-request and unspent-fund questions. Historical source-status and chronology wording in the brief were not carried forward as current findings.
  • September 26, 2026: emphasized residents’ questions about benefit, full cost, independent revenue and oversight; clarified the roughly nine-cents finding where used. Kept public-review gaps and reimbursement evidence visible. No new underlying evidence or misconduct finding.
  • September 25, 2026: Organized the investigation into a main overview and three spending articles. Added Seven Rivers IRS findings and reimbursement counterevidence. Made the opportunity for anyone to speak prominent. Treated the published hearing date as established, with hearing and adoption outcomes still pending.
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