The Houston Parks Board is spending 100 million dollars of your money, but they don’t want you to see who is on their payroll and how much they make.

Dolcefino Consulting has now filed a criminal complaint to expose their arrogance.

“The Houston Parks Board has proven in recent days they think they are above real questions about the way they spend public money,” says Wayne Dolcefino, President of Dolcefino Consulting. “We will not let it stand, and the Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg needs to fight for transparency. Charities who spend government money and then keep secrets should be cut off from public funds.”

In Texas, charities who hide financial records from public record are breaking the law.

The Parks Board is running the Bayou Greenways 2010 project for Houston taxpayers. That’s the 220 million dollars we are spending to connect bayous with hike and bike trails, even in industrial places where no one is going to go strolling.

The Jordan family owns huge 18-wheeler overnight parking lot on Old Beaumont Highway, just down the road from a halfway house for sex offenders and across the street from the dump.

They think spending money on a hike and bike trail is a waste of money here, and downright dangerous for anyone who would use it.

“Why would any young lady, any person, want to walk their dog or ride a bike around this and smell this,” says Diedre Jordan. “It is the ugliest part of Houston for a reason.”

The Houston Parks Board has already told Jordan if she doesn’t sell her property for this city project, they will just take it, using government eminent domain. The Sprawling Parks Charity says it doesn’t even have to tell you the other 50 properties they plan to buy, even by force.

“Texans don’t like the government stealing their land, and this land is Jordan’s livelihood,” says Dolcefino. “The use of eminent domain needs to be a necessity, and a hike and bike trail just doesn’t qualify.”

Diedre Jordan will appear before Houston City Council at 9:00 am Wednesday to ask the council to intercede to stop the takeover of private property for the beautification project.

Dolcefino Consulting warned the Houston Parks Board about their payroll secrecy before filing our criminal complaint. The District Attorney charged the controversial Cypress Creek EMS ambulance service with a crime for refusing to show payroll records. Their trial is scheduled next month.