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Polk County treasurer seeks control of tax transfers, asks commissioners to review investment policy
Summary
At the March 19 Polk County Board of Commissioners meeting the county treasurer said she is being trained to perform monthly transfers of property-tax receipts and urged a review of the countyinvestment policy; commissioners approved routine items and voted to enter executive session under ORS 192.660(2)(f).
Polk County Treasurer told the Board of Commissioners on March 19 that she is taking steps to assume responsibility for preparing monthly reports and making transfers of property-tax receipts to taxing districts, and she urged the board to review the countyinvestment policy.
The treasurer said she has been working with Caitlin, the county tax collector, and that she will "actually do and prepare the report and, get access so that I can actually do the transfers." She added that she will continue learning the processes she says she should have been trained on years earlier.
The exchange grew into a broader discussion about who is the countycustodian of trust funds. The treasurer told commissioners that Polk County budget documents and the county's GRAMA summary language identify the treasurer as custodian of trust funds and questioned the need for a separate…
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