"Those responsible must be made to resign public office and to repay to the state money improperly spent."

According to the department's inspector general, nearly $229,000 of the project's $260,000 budget was spent improperly or questionably.

It found that $1.17 million had been improperly spent, as follows:

It does not suggest the money was spent improperly.

He said he would try to recover the amounts spent improperly under the discount card program.

In October 2005, local politicians accused Anderson of improperly spending public money.

But the mountain of litigation the Barnes has engendered produced claims that money may have been improperly spent.

At the same time, some federal money was spent improperly and not according to HUD law, which is also now under investigation.

They said the report was meant to illuminate systematic flaws and to retrieve money that was improperly spent.

A federal audit found that the program had improperly spent money and had not properly accounted for its federal grants.