KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- It has taken almost a year.
On Wednesday, Kansas City's internal auditor will release the results of his investigation of the mayor's office.
NBC Action News was allowed, by a source, to see the report in its entirety Tuesday night.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser questions why the report took so long, while the auditor says Funkhouser was part of the problem.
The internal investigation focused on how the mayor ran his office.
The report purposely does not draw any conclusions or make any recommendations.
That's okay with a city hall critic we interviewed.
"I think now it's the job of the City Council to act on it and to refer it to investigative bodies," said Patrick Tuohey.
Tuohey's complaint to the Missouri Ethics Commission helped launch the city's internal investigation.
Tuohey questioned whether Funkhouser should be using city staff, especially press assistant Joe Miller, to help run last year's light rail campaign.
That included a bizarre fake news conference on October 23rd, 2008, leading up to the light rail election, which failed at the polls.
"We filed a report on a Wednesday or Thursday, and the behavior we were complaining about stopped," said Tuoghey.
Miller himself thought he had overstepped ethics guidelines and quit. He then was cleared by the Ethics Commission.
The new report quotes Mayor Funkhouser as saying, "I'm sure I never told Joe Miller to violate the law."
The report has a 37-page summary and hundreds of pages of supporting documents, much of which has been reported before.
Funkhouser refused to talk about it on-camera, but issued a statement saying, "I consider this matter to be closed. I considered it closed in January when I was cleared by the Missouri Ethics Commission."
KCMO General Auditor Roy Greenway accuses the mayor's office of not cooperating.
It took from April to June, plus a subpoena threat, to get answers from the mayor the first time.
Greenway asked more questions in August and didn't get answers until November 2.
The city council instigated the investigation while feuding with the mayor last year.
But things have changed at City Hall.
Council members now say they don't want to keep fighting, so this report may simply sit on a shelf.
The investigation also looked at alleged withholding of a public document, whether the mayor should have vetoed the volunteer ordinance, and the use of city photos on the mayor's private website.
On that, the photographer says she still has the copyright on the photos and she'll let Funkhouser use them however he wants.
Funkhouser says the pictures in question were taken down within 48 hours after learning they might have been used inappropriately.
