Pottstown's borough finances have experienced more ups and downs than an adventure film as borough officials have discovered missing funds, then realized impending deficits, then learned they'd lost money or forgotten to send out proper bills to area townships for water. In the latest news, the borough realized it would have a large deficit for 2010, which might be made worse by declining property values and reassessments boroughwide.

The state of Pottstown's borough finances may be more a fright than a thrill for the borough's newest finance director who has found unused accounts full of money and past due bills in dire need of it.

For more on this story, check out Sorting out Pottstown's lost and found and Bungled billing could cost Pottstown Authority $2M.

This was an alternative cartoon I developed on this subject.