Bogalusa Mayor Tyrin Truong and the city's fiscal administrator Bob Neilson publicly clashed at a hearing in Baton Rouge on Monday, as they faced questions about their working relationship and some residents called for Neilson's removal.

Neilson was appointed fiscal administrator by a state judge in February, against Truong's protests , after the state found the city was dangerously close to financial chaos.

"We are no longer operating in a crisis mode, but this is only the beginning," Neilson said on Monday at a meeting of the legislative Audit Advisory Council.

Neilson testified that he was addressing the city's sewage problems, claimed that Truong's administration had not done routine accounting and said that preliminary bookkeeping suggests the city had about a $3.4 million defi

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