Bourbon County clerk warns payroll conversion is moving too quickly, staff raise technical concerns

County Clerk (name not specified) told the Bourbon County Board of County Commissioners at a special meeting that a planned payroll and time-management conversion is proceeding too quickly and threatens county operations during the busy election period.

"This timeline is premature," the clerk said, adding that her office had only received access to view the new payroll and time-management systems for the first time that day but employees were expected to complete enrollment and begin clocking in on Sunday. She said the clerk's office must also prepare budgets, run open enrollment, and handle election duties from August through November and that the current schedule would require excessive overtime in her office.

The clerk said the change had been described as a cost-saving operational improvement but called it "a political move" and warned it "adds unnecessary administrative oversight, no integration with our current accounting system, increased risk of human error, and fails to meet the governance requirements…