After nine months, county moves to hire auditor.Byline: Matt Cooper Matt Cooper may refer to:
The Lane County commissioners plan to hire an auditor to evaluate county departments, filling a nine-month-old vacancy, an official said Tuesday. The auditor will study county services to determine whether goals are being met and money is well spent, and will report directly to the five-member board, said Greta Utecht, the human resources The fancy word for "people." The human resources department within an organization, years ago known as the "personnel department," manages the administrative aspects of the employees. manager. The position pays $50,000 to $69,000. The hire comes at a time when county services are in the spotlight. County officials will spend at least $250,000 this year to publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] county services and their cost. The commissioners plan in November to ask voters to approve a first-ever county income tax to fund an increase in public-safety services. Utecht said it will be helpful to fill the post given those circumstances CIRCUMSTANCES, evidence. The particulars which accompany a fact. 2. The facts proved are either possible or impossible, ordinary and probable, or extraordinary and improbable, recent or ancient; they may have happened near us, or afar off; they are public or , but added that the ongoing search wasn't driven by the publicity campaign or the income tax. The commissioners have wanted to fill the position since it was vacated last July, but it has taken time to review the job duties and salary, and the board didn't want to advertise for the post over the winter holidays, Utecht said. The job was created in 1986 and was filled by David Suchart for nine years. He is now the county's director of management services. As auditor, Suchart in 1989 reviewed a clash between the board and then-Sheriff Dave Burks over public-safety policies. Suchart found the board had routinely failed to fully review and follow through with changes to public-safety policy; his recommendation - use of a facilitator to resolve differences - was well-received by the commissioners. Dean Stephens, now a Benton County Benton County is the name of nine counties in the United States:
pl.n. Construction projects, such as highways or dams, financed by public funds and constructed by a government for the benefit or use of the general public. Noun 1. manager, filled the auditor post from 1999 to 2001. Kay Blackburn, now Lane County financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. manager, served from 2002 to 2005, reviewing such things as costs for weed control Weed control is the botanical component of pest control, stopping weeds from reaching a mature stage of growth when they could be harmful to domesticated plants and livestock by physical and chemical methods. and maintenance of sheriff's department vehicles, said Commissioner Bill Dwyer, board chairman. Within the government auditing industry, there's debate about whether auditors should be elected by the public or appointed by an arm of government. In Eugene, for example, voters last November gave the City Council the authority to hire a police auditor, while opponents said the city manager should oversee the post. The National Association of Local Government Auditors has about 3,000 members. The membership is a "pretty even split" between those elected and those appointed, said Jim Williamson, assistant city auditor for Oklahoma City Oklahoma City (1990 pop. 444,719), state capital, and seat of Oklahoma co., central Okla., on the North Canadian River; inc. 1890. The state's largest city, it is an important livestock market, a wholesale, distribution, industrial, and financial center, and a farm , Okla., and the group's president-elect. Some prefer elected auditors, perceiving them to be accountable to the public, Williamson said. Others say only government-appointed auditors gain the access and insight needed to make a difference. Either system can work, he added, as long as the auditor operates independently. To that end, for example, his group encourages a 66 percent "supermajority Supermajority A corporate amendment in a company's charter requiring a large majority (anywhere from 67%-90%) of shareholders to approve important changes, such as a merger. " in the hiring and firing of the posts. Dwyer is satisfied with Lane County's board-appointed system. "There'll always be somebody that doesn't like it, but it doesn't seem like it impacts an objective analysis, and I haven't seen that," he said. "The auditor has to be independent of the county administration - an auditor has to report directly to the elected officials." |
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