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Commission directs audit committee to review Election Commission overages and benchmarking
Summary
Facing an election-office budget overage and repeated annual overruns, the Sumner County General Operations Committee voted to send questions about the Election Commission’s costs and repeated budget overruns to the audit committee for further study.
Committee members spent extensive time on March 24 reviewing Election Commission budget lines after staff reported the office was over budget in several lines and had an elevated overtime exposure.
Commissioners discussed figures shown in the transfer and budget reports: staff said the election workers line showed an overage of roughly $52,000 and that the election office had requested about $22,000 in additional overtime. Commissioners voiced concern about recurring overruns and the county’s obligation under state law not to exceed budget lines.
“...it just seems like every year, the election commission, we go through the budget…
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