Ask who does the work, who pays and who checks it

Choose the questions that matter to you. You do not need to read every supporting record to ask for a clear explanation. The detailed prompts below identify what could supply one.

What does the $140,000 buy?

1. What services, commitments and measurable results support another $140,000 for DAAC, and what results were reported for the most recent completed year? Source 2
2. How much of DAAC's work benefits Appling residents directly, and how does it report those benefits to commissioners and the public?
3. What revenues does DAAC earn or receive apart from County support, what restrictions apply, and what legally available reserves can support its operations?
4. What funding gap remains after those resources? Could DAAC meet its obligations with less County support, and what services would change? We have not established that it can or cannot support itself. Source 9
5. Are any revenues returned to the County or used to offset the next funding request? Which records document that practice?

Why these separate organizations, and how is their work divided?

6. What distinct responsibilities belong to DAAC, the City DDA and the Chamber? What functions overlap, and what written arrangements divide the work? These are two identified development authorities and a Chamber, not three confirmed development authorities. Source 4–6
7. What practical benefit does the separate structure provide, and what administrative costs accompany it? Have shared-service alternatives been evaluated within each body's legal responsibilities?
8. What exactly does DAAC purchase from the Chamber, how was the price established, and how is completed work documented? Source 4
9. How are staff time, premises and other shared costs allocated? What controls prevent charging two payers for the same obligation? Shared premises alone do not establish duplicate payment. Source 9
10. Which City recipients receive the proposed $25,000 DDA events amount and $13,500 Contributions amount, and for what services? This question belongs to the City; neither category has been traced as a Chamber payment. Source 5, 10

What accountability comes with the public money?

11. What budgets, audits, contracts and performance reports do commissioners receive before approving County support?
12. What happens if services are not delivered, funds go unused or the organization's other available revenues grow?
13. When will residents be able to inspect the agreement, payment records and reports that answer these questions?

The records establish a proposed County appropriation and reported DAAC–Chamber service revenue. They do not yet trace the same dollars through the organizations or establish duplicate payment. The prepared records request has not been sent.

What did commissioners review before proposing support?

14. Did the Board receive DAAC's current budget request, financial statements, prior County-funding expenditure report, revolving-loan-fund status and performance report? Please identify each document and its date.
15. Does the County require a DAAC audit? If so, what period does the latest audit cover, when did the fiscal officer receive it, and where can residents inspect the releasable report? This does not assume that an audit was required or overdue.
16. What written FY2027 funding request supports the appropriation? What spending is permitted, what happens to unspent County funds, and what conditions attach to County support, and what repayment, reporting or corrective provisions apply if the agreed use or service is not delivered?
17. Before a future development commitment involving public funds, incentives, land or service capacity, what project-specific analysis will show who pays, who benefits, the continuing cost and who bears the risk?