Commissioners continue to dispute “audit” report findings
Please use the SHARE buttons to forward this news DISCUSSION RECENTLY RETURNED to the April 5 report issued by the Walton County Clerk of Courts containing findings of violations by members of the Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) involving purchasing card use and travel-related expenses, with the commissioners continuing to dispute those findings. By DOTTY NIST Approximately 687 pages of documentation, including several letters, have been assembled and made publicly available, aimed at countering the findings of the Walton County Clerk of Courts Internal Audit Department 40-page April 5 report that had been prompted by an anonymous statement to the clerk’s Fraud, Waste & Abuse Hotline. The documentation and letters, the latter all dated Aug. 10 and addressed to Walton County Clerk of Courts Alex Alford, were included as part of the agenda for the Aug. 23 Walton County Board of County Commissioners (BCC) regular meeting at the South Walton Annex, and there was related discussion at the meeting. The clerk’s office report had come to light in early July shortly after being made available to the public for the first time. Among other findings, the report had concluded that Walton County commissioners had violated county policy and state law in connection with travel-related spending and with their use of county purchasing cards, also known as p-cards or Walton County credit cards. A copy of the report had been furnished to the Office of State Attorney, First Judicial Circuit of Florida, and that office had sent a copy...
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