I would like to know who else out there thinks the County Clerk should be held responsible for the missing money from the County, and other various mis-happenings of job duties?
From my understanding the County Clerks are suppose to balance the drawers as a double check. How can that much come up missing, and at least three employees be involved, in some way, and the County Clerk not know?
Why has it taken so long to fill those positions? I do not see why it is now April, and those vacancies are still unfilled. I had heard it was because the County Clerk failed to publish a employment ad in the paper. Is this not a huge part of a Clerks job to be sure the public knows?
If this County Clerk was new to the job maybe, and I say maybe, those details could be overlooked. However I do believe this Clerk has been in office a few years as the Clerk, and prior to that worked in the office. As I understand, the last County Clerk retired or stepped down, and the current one stepped up, as our local paper calls annointed, and has run unopposed since.
With a great deal of discussions on about lawsuits, and the cost to taxpayers, was there not a lawsuit or grievance filed against the Clerk by employees about bumper stickers on vehicles?
How many more years will no one not run against a public official and give people choices?
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3 years ago
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How can the clerk be responsible for what her staff does every minute?? There are no oversights in that office.
Every minute no, but 50,000? Three staff members involved? The buck was suppose to stop with the Clerk. I have been in management positions, and if a register was shorted it was that managers responsibility. I say 50,000 and 3 staff members is way out of line. She never knew until the new auditors came on board.
I withdrew my earlier post to do some investigating. Interesting stuff you find if you look around...
The accounts these employees stole from are controlled by the Court, not the Clerk. The vouchers (do a FOIA request) were signed by Judge Fisher and the court administrator If you also read the minutes of the Finance Committee, you find a time line from Debbie that shows she should be commended rather than reviled.
If the bucks actually stopped with the Clerk in this instance, then the old adage would have been right. Is Debbie entirely without blame in this matter? no. However, the vast majority of the blame should fall upon those who are either unchallenged for their office (Judge Fisher) or unelected (court administrator).
The job posting was in the paper and on the county website, there doesn't appear to have been any delay...
[groan]The bumper sticker mess was much ado about nothing. Someone filed a claim, and it was handled in a union tribunal--at no cost to taxpayers.
It is amazing what research can accomplish.
I will have to correct you on the delay for the job posting. It was posted on the web site. They held interviews. Then had to again run the ads because the posting was not properly advertised. Then they conducted interviews again. There was a mistake made in the advertising of the position.
My question would be from whom does the Judge get his vouchers from? The accountings come from somewhere.
The current clerk has made several what should be simple tasks mistakes.
Well the positions are filled. Out of over 200 applicants, they hired three. The lack of investigation into the background makes me once again question the competency of the current clerk.
bebe--
You should report any knowledge you have of these folks backgrounds to the administrator. I am sure Debbie followed county procedure in the hirings.
For one I shjould not have to do the Clerks job. The only background needed was from across the street in her own court system, actually the names and dates of those hearings are posted and emailed to many. When a certain new deputy clerks pay check has a slightly different amount to it, would you not think that the Clerk was the one, and or the accounting department, would be aware of it at least then?
FROM MLIVE: Thought this was a nice comparision:
PAW PAW -- A former deputy clerk with Kalamazoo County Circuit Court was sentenced Monday to 30 days in jail and restitution for embezzling money from the court.
Peggy Marie Dunigan, 50, of Kalamazoo, was sentenced by Van Buren County Circuit Judge William C. Buhl to $38,000 in restitution, five years of probation and the jail time for embezzlement by a public official of more than $50. She could have faced up to 10 years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
Dunigan, who worked at the Kalamazoo courthouse for 11 years, took money from Kalamazoo County Circuit Court between Jan. 16, 2000, and Nov. 29, 2006, according to court files.
Barry County Prosecutor Thomas Evans investigated the case at the request of Kalamazoo County Prosecutor Jeff Fink because it involved a Kalamazoo County employee. Buhl was assigned the case after Kalamazoo County judges disqualified themselves.
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