Carrie Mosling, an employee in the county auditor's office, told the Tooele County Council on Sept. 2 that a budget transfer approved Aug. 19 shifted purchasing duties and left her small office with more work than it can sustain. Mosling said the auditor's office has four staffers and that the transfer “was disheartening.”

Mosling described sustained extra duties since 2019, including work creating the Tyler financial software structure and taking on bank reconciliation responsibilities when the treasurer's office could not reconcile accounts. “Reconciling a government account is significantly more complex than reconciling our own personal account,” she said. She said the office also handled workers' compensation processing during an HR transition and supported departments during busy seasonal periods.

Nut graf: Mosling characterized the Aug. 19 budget transfer as moving a majority of the purchasing position's budget to the county manager's office while leaving the auditors with most of the duties, which she said translates into roughly 19.6 extra hours per week for her four-person office. She urged the council to consider the operational impacts when staffing and budget decisions are made.

In her remarks Mosling warned that ongoing initiatives the office had been preparing to support—such as additional Tyler modules for project accounting and grant management—will be difficult to implement without more staff time. She urged council members to visit the office during busy periods to see workload and volume firsthand.

Discussion vs. decision: Mosling's remarks came during the public-comment portion of the meeting; no formal action followed from the council at that time. The transcript records her comments but no immediate council direction or vote related to the budget transfer during the Sept. 2 meeting.

Ending: Mosling concluded by asking the council to consider the human impact of staffing changes: “We're not just staff filling roles. We're people who care about this community,” she said.