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Commissioners direct formation of finance subcommittee to overhaul procurement and credit-card policies

2097643 · January 6, 2025
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Summary

After a lengthy work-session discussion, commissioners agreed to form a finance-committee subcommittee — co-led by the auditor, treasurer and a commissioner — to draft a problem statement and begin prioritized reforms to procurement, credit-card limits and related finance policies.

Clallam County commissioners and senior staff spent an extended portion of the Jan. 6 work session discussing recurring problems with procurement rules, credit-card use, thresholds for department authority and the administrative burden created when policies are not followed.

Commissioners, the auditor and the treasurer described incidents where county credit cards were used in ways that later required corrective steps, and they…

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