A letter was recently sent out to neighbouring businesses informing them of this development. She has also been a reporter at the Edmonton Journal and Saskatoon StarPhoenix. ARCHES expects to hold a press conference on the audit "soon" and will notify the media when it plans to do so. "There is a grooming culture here that is alarming …"Both Fitchett and DeCocco-Kolebaba said they were hopeful that ongoing changes would strengthen ARCHES.Luan said ideology isn't driving the ARCHES funding cut. Since opening, there have been approximately 167,000 uses at our facility and we have responded to 1,625 medical emergencies. He said two unnamed directors are currently managing operations of the organization.In May, the board hired business consultant Mandy DeCecco-Kolebaba to improve the structure and culture of ARCHES.CBC News obtained a five-page update she provided to the provincial government upon request. Luan plans to send the audit results to police.The minister has told Alberta Health to immediately cease provincial grant funding to ARCHES. "Deloitte's audit found the organization allegedly violated the terms of its grant agreement with the government and its internal policies in numerous ways.The auditors found provincial funding was mixed up in bank accounts with other money, which violated the grant agreement and made it difficult to track how public funding was used.About $13,000 of interest from a bank account that held provincial funding was used to pay for car rental and hotel rooms in Portugal, along with travel expenses in Vancouver and Calgary.The organization's credit card was used to pay for a $2,200 television that auditors couldn't find, $1,060 for "supplies" from a dealer of smoking accessories and $2,100 worth of gift cards at a Lethbridge oil change business. Effective August 31, 2020, ARCHES will no longer be providing supervised consumption, needle collection, or outreach services.

You can reach her at janet.french@cbc.caIt is a priority for CBC to create a website that is accessible to all Canadians including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges.Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered onThe Alberta government has halted grant funding to Lethbridge’s only supervised consumption site after a government-ordered audit found $1.6 million of public money unaccounted for.Lethbridge supervised consumption site loses government funding after audit finds $1.6M shortfall Effective August 31, 2020, ARCHES will no longer be providing supervised consumption, needle collection, or outreach services. LETHBRIDGE, AB – Financial information posted on Revenue Canada’s Registered Charity Information Return, shows that ARCHES (AIDS Outreach Community Harm Education Support Society) received more than $7 million in funding in 2019, mainly from the provincial government – but also from the City of Lethbridge and the Federal Government. Our Taz Dhaliwal has the details. ARCHES will vacate its downtown location by Sept. 30. The audit findings into the ARCHES supervised consumption site have been turned over to Lethbridge police to see if criminal charges should be laid. The Alberta government has halted grant funding to Lethbridge's only supervised consumption site after a government-ordered audit found $1.6 million of public money unaccounted for. Workers were concerned about the misuse of funds, unqualified managers and poor transparency and community partnerships. "The organization is heavily dependent on provincial funding, which made up about three-quarters of its revenue in 2018-19, the government audit said.Losing the roughly $6 million annually would mean a "dramatic change in scope of service," Fitchett said last week. Our newsroom abides by the RTNDA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and follows the Canadian Press Stylebook.The Supervised Consumption Site in Lethbridge. ARCHES also receives funding from the City of Lethbridge and the federal government.The report said ARCHES received $14.5 million in provincial funding between October 2017 and March 2020 to offer supervised consumption services (SCS) and an Indigenous cultural program called ARCHES, initially founded in 1986 as the Lethbridge HIV Connection, As its programs and budget expanded rapidly, so did the organization. They found the executive was paid nearly $275,000 in 2018-19, which included $70,000 of overtime pay, not all of which was properly authorized.The auditors were unsuccessful in figuring out how many people ARCHES employed. ARCHES is expected to vacate the 1st Avenue South location before the end of September. Due to the sensitive and/or legal subject matter of some of the content on globalnews.ca, we reserve the ability to disable comments from time to time.Alberta’s Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions has confirmed Lethbridge police have been asked to investigate whether any crimes have occurred.“The Economic Crimes Unit is conducting the investigation, which is currently in the very early stages,” a police spokesperson told Global News on Thursday.“We will not be doing any interviews or commenting on the matter further in order to protect the integrity of the ongoing investigation.”The audit findings, released July 16, alleged the site’s operator, ARCHES, mismanaged public funds.The report — completed by accounting firm Deloitte — found more than $1.6 million was unaccounted for due to missing documentation for expenses between 2017 and 2018 and that a senior executive’s compensation totalled $342,943 in one year, despite the grant agreement allowing for a salary of $80,000.It also said the interest of ARCHES’ bank accounts — which the province said was $13,000 — was used to fund parties, staff retreats, entertainment and gift cards.According to the Alberta government, ARCHES has received more than $14.4 million in government grants over the past two years.When it released the audit findings last week, the UCP said it would no longer be providing funding for the ARCHES-run site.It also said auditors were unable to review all allegations made or provide complete financial value for each allegation because of the state of the site’s records and related outstanding documents.Global News has reached out to ARCHES for comment on the audit findings being turned over to the police but we have not heard back.Get a roundup of the most important and intriguing stories, delivered to your inboxGet a roundup of the most important and intriguing stories, delivered to your inbox

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