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Staff raises concerns about county credit-card charges, asks commissioners to tighten purchasing policy
Summary
At the Oct. 1 Buchanan Board of Commissioners work session, a county staff member reported questionable credit-card charges, including a $3,200 promotional-items purchase bearing a personal name, and asked the board to require repayment and update purchasing rules to cover credit-card use and approvals.
A county staff member told the Buchanan Board of Commissioners at its Oct. 1 work session that recent credit-card use by county departments has produced “questionable charges” and urged the board to add explicit credit-card rules to the county purchasing policy.
The staff member said the district attorney’s office had recorded multiple questionable charges in the past two months, including two Starbucks purchases and a $3,200 promotional-items order for compact mirrors, pens, post-it notes,…
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