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Registrar staff alleges improper dismissal procedures; commissioners hold executive session, take no action
Summary
A registrar of deeds employee raised concerns about a personnel action and asked the board to review her record. Commissioners moved into an executive session for non-elected personnel with counsel present; the board reconvened and recorded no action.
A Chase County registrar of deeds employee raised concerns during Monday's meeting about a personnel action involving alleged incompetence and claimed procedural confusion. The employee, identified in the meeting as Sherry Wells, said she had followed office procedure when correcting a document that had an incorrect legal description and that she had discussed the correction with the registrar before rescanning the corrected document into the system.
Sherry Wells told commissioners she believed internal protocol had been followed and said she did not commit fraud; she asked the board to restore her record. "I did not commit fraud, and I'm not incompetent," she told the board, and asked the commissioners to address the matter. The board moved into executive session for non-elected personnel with the county attorney and clerk present; after returning from the executive session, the commissioners recorded that no action had been taken.
The transcript shows the commission's motion to go into executive session for 10 minutes, reconvene at a stated time, and include the clerk and attorney in the session. The motion passed on a voice vote. Later in the meeting another brief executive session for non-elected personnel was called and followed by the same outcome: no action taken.
Because the matter concerned personnel and was discussed in executive session, commissioners did not provide further details publicly about the content of the discussion or any personnel decisions. The employee had presented copies of evaluations and documents to the board before the executive session and requested correction of her record; the transcript records the request and the commissioners' decision to discuss the matter in private.
No formal disciplinary actions or changes to personnel rosters were announced at the meeting; the clerk's office and county attorney were present during the executive session, per the motion recorded in the minutes.
