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San Fer­nan­do May­or Robert Par­ris says the dis­ap­pear­ance of $90,000 from the San Fer­nan­do City Cor­po­ra­tion (SFCC) re­mains a source of deep em­bar­rass­ment to the en­tire or­gan­i­sa­tion, even as he re­it­er­ates that the mat­ter falls out­side the purview of the po­lit­i­cal arm.

This is the sec­ond time Par­ris has ad­dressed the is­sue since the funds were re­port­ed miss­ing ear­li­er this month. His lat­est com­ments came dur­ing an in­ter­view at City Hall yes­ter­day, where he al­so dis­closed that in­ves­ti­ga­tors be­lieve they now un­der­stand what tran­spired.

On May 16, an act­ing ac­coun­tant placed $6,534.50 in­to a locked cab­i­net that al­ready held $83,465.50 in sealed Re­pub­lic Bank en­velopes. When the ac­coun­tant re­turned on May 19, the cab­i­net had been opened us­ing a key, and the cash was gone. The funds re­port­ed­ly rep­re­sent­ed tax­es and fees col­lect­ed by the cor­po­ra­tion.