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City plans reorganization after long-serving auditor announces retirement
Summary
With longtime auditor Steve Sprague planning retirement, staff proposed shifting accounting functions from the auditor's office into finance and reassigning clerk-like duties to a revised auditor/clerk role; commissioners voiced appreciation for Sprague’s service and asked staff to proceed with job descriptions and transition planning.
Staff told commissioners that Steve Sprague plans to retire at the end of the year or early next year, and that finance staff have been reviewing the auditor-office responsibilities to propose a reorganization.
Susan and other staff said many accounting responsibilities historically in the auditor’s office — for example, special-assessment accounting and project accounting — are now a better fit in a finance department structure, while the auditor’s office could retain clerk-like functions such as licensing, records retention and utility billing. "Looking at that, there's not a lot of true financial responsibilities anymore. So I'd like bring those few things... up to finance," Susan said.
Staff said they will develop job descriptions, consider where records and Freedom of Information Act requests should be housed, and bring formal proposals back to the commission as the retirement timing becomes firm. Commissioners thanked Sprague for long service; Sprague said election and liquor-control duties will remain in the office during the transition and that election work is ready to be posted on Jan. 1.
No formal reorganization vote occurred at this meeting; staff indicated they would return with specific job descriptions and any structural changes for commission approval.
