A forensic audit has determined that Brampton Mayor Susan Fennell and her staff violated city spending rules more than 200 times, improperly billing the municipality for everything from premium hotel rooms to business class airfare tickets and cellphone IQ quizzes.

The audit, which was released by Deloitte Canada after a four-month investigation, found that Fennell and her staff were responsible for $131,581 in improper charges and expenses over a seven-year period that have not been reimbursed and another $155,952 in charges and expenses that may have breached city rules, however enough information was not provided to make a determination. The audit also found $42,979 in improper charges and expenses by Brampton city councillors over the last three years.

On Wednesday, Brampton city council voted to send the audit to police to review.

It should be noted that the audit cleared Fennell of using staff to help organize an annual gala and golf classic, finding that staff had “minimal involvement” with either event during business hours.

The audit also found that business class airfares to trade missions in China, India and the Philippines did not violate city policies nor did expenses incurred during trips to Florida in 2007, 2008 and 2009 to support a city-sister agreement with Miami Beach.

In a statement released late Tuesday night, Fennell said she accepts much of what is in the report and will have more to say on Wednesday.

“I have the privilege and the honour of being the mayor of this great city, and the buck stops here - with me. I accept responsibility for all that I do as mayor of Brampton, positive and less positive,” Fennell wrote. “If there are changes that need to be made, I will make them and I will work with my colleagues on council to ensure that they, too, accept responsibility for their shortcomings. That is what we all must do, to better serve Brampton.”

Some of the highlights of the audit include a $509-a-night premium hotel room at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler, a $369-a-night premium hotel room at the Fairmont Empress Victoria, $7,316 spent on business class airfare tickets to London and Nunavut, and $8,483 in personal expenses racked up on a city-issued credit card that were later reimbursed.

The audit also singled out tens of thousands of dollars in flight passes, many of which expired before they were able to be used. Other more expensive passes were also used in less expensive travel zones, according to the audit. In one instance in November 2012, Fennell and two staff members travelled to Ottawa using credits from a North America Latitude flight pass at a cost of $1,860.60 round trip each, violating city rules that prohibit purchasing airfare that is more expensive than the economy class rate.

Other expenses may have broken rules

In addition to numerous violations of the city’s various expense policies, Deloitte also found 79 items that it was unable to render a determination on due to a lack of information.

Included among those items was $144,150 spent on a 24/7 on-call car service for the mayor between 2010 and 2013 in which there were no records kept on what the service had been used for.

The audit also looked at four incidents where gas was purchased for a city-issued vehicle twice on the same day and six incidents where gas was purchased “not in close vicinity to Brampton.”

In its report, Deloitte says it is expressing “no opinion” on whether the issues identified are sufficient to establish “civil or criminal wrongdoing.”

“We have to find out what is going on and get to the bottom of this,” Coun. John Sanderson told CP24 on Wednesday morning. “I know it says in the report that the auditor has taken it as far as he can take it and now we have to figure out if we want to take it further to law enforcement or whatever it may be.”

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