

| As you can see, we have NO Reserve Fund. All retained earnings have been depleted by the huge transfers of our revenues. There continues to be NO ACCOUNTABILITY! Meanwhile, our Casino is falling apart before our eyes. The roof is leaking, necessitating the ugly black make-shift umbrellas with hoses directing the water into garbage cans & tarps covering machines. Some of the toilets have dirty blocks of wood supporting the toilet bowls. Water & sewer problems continue with the dirty, discolored water and foul sewer odors emitting around the bathrooms. The parking lots & walkways are a hazard with cracked & uneven pavement. The contract for the remodeling at the Lodge had to be discarded because of back taxes amounting to almost half a million dollars for just FY2009 and Members heard at the January Enterprise meeting that there’s much more that the Tribe will have to pay for past unpaid taxes! The Tribe’s primary source of revenue is the dilapidated eyesore of a Casino and we now have no money for the basic repairs that have been put on hold for years! Remember, each and every individual Bad River Tribal Member is a Shareholder. These Enterprise revenues belong to the Shareholders. Please take some time to look at these financial reports then ask our elected officials what they are doing about these troubling facts. |
Looking at our Enterprise Financials: Seeing Red
Dec 2010 reports have recently been made available. These 3 financials should raise many an eyebrow. With these reports, more questions abound than are resolved. First question is, without an ending balance from the previous month, how is the beginning balance established? Secondly, when will the Aug & Sept 2010 Enterprise financials be available? More importantly, we want to know, what is happening with our Enterprise revenues? A closer look at the net profit/loss, transfers out & the retained earnings (reserve funds), literally makes us see red! Enterprise revenues are reported as : Oct 2010 $1,018,253.93 Nov 2010 $211,477.18 Dec 2010 - $14,291.25 The Enterprise revenues transferred out exceeded the profits for Nov & Dec 2010: Oct 2010 $65,944.86 Nov 2010 $907,337.64 Dec 2010 $66,031.86 The transfers out created negative balances in the retained earnings (reserved funds) for Nov & Dec 2010: Oct 2010 $ 947,309.07 Nov 2010 - $695,860.46 Dec 2010 - $80,323.11 Some people prefer to see charts & graphs. We took the financial info and did just that:
CASINO COMPLEX:
ACCOUNTING (10,764.87) (24,063.95) (33,274.40) BAR 17,481.61 (2,496.68) (4,133.16) FOOD SERVICE 60,500.50 (79,404.88) (68,208.76) SMOKE SHOP 4,153.95 9,565.25 8,197.02 LODGE 27,392.22 (26,372.63) (25,983.91) TOTALS: $949,387.00 $231,866.53 $ 19,676.78 MOCCASIN TRAIL COMPLEX: GROC STORE $ 36,295.48 ($18,178.63) ($20,505.60) GAS STATION 27,571.45 (2,210.72) (13,512.43) MT PURCH 0 0 0 TOTALS: $63,866.93 ($20,389.35) ($33,968.03) ENTERPRISE TOTALS: $1,013,253.93 $211,477.18 ($14,291.25)
OCT 2010 NOV 2010 DEC 2010 $65,944.86 $907,337.64 $66,031.86 |