Shelby County Board members discussed an audit of the county-affiliated dive team on May 8 and urged the team to use county accounting resources to improve bookkeeping and compliance.

During discussion, a board member recommended that the person responsible for dive team accounting meet with the Shelby County Treasurer to improve recordkeeping. The board member emphasized that the treasurers services should be provided at no additional charge to the team and framed the recommendation as intended to reduce the countys vulnerability to accounting errors, not to shame volunteers.

The discussion noted the audit included a roster that had been obtained through a freedom-of-information request several years earlier; the audit also stated that a roster had been requested from the dive team but was not provided. A sitting board member formally requested that the dive team provide an updated roster to the board.

Board members did not take formal disciplinary action during the meeting. Instead, they discussed next steps: routing accounting responsibilities to the treasurers office as a support measure and asking the dive team to supply the requested roster so the county can verify membership and oversight.

During public comment later in the meeting, a resident asked why the roster could not be provided by a named individual (Austin Pritchard) who had been identified as present in roll call, and the speaker recommended that the dive team commander should be able to supply the roster. The board did not record further commitments at that time beyond the request for the roster and the recommendation to use treasurer services.

The items on the dive-team audit and roster request were presented as discussion items; the transcript records no vote or binding directive to change governance or operational control of the dive team.