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Family complaints and procurement questions mark Lake County coroner discussion
Summary
A Lake County work session examined financial policy enforcement after finance staff questioned purchases by the county coroner and grieving family members told commissioners the coroner delayed picking up a decedent; the district attorney has investigated but has not closed the matter.
Lake County commissioners heard a heated mix of policy questions and emotional public complaint during a March 5 work session after finance staff flagged specific coroner purchases for review and family members accused the coroner of failing to respond in a death call.
The discussion began as a review of how the county’s new financial policies are being implemented and how finance staff should engage with elected offices. Tim Bergman, who opened the session, said the goal was to clarify “the enforcement of those policies, the importance of those policies, to be able to track the public’s money, and how we do that.”
The discussion turned personal when residents from Leadville’s Gallegos family raised an allegation that the coroner did not promptly pick up a relative’s body on March 31 of the prior year and that family members waited for hours. A family representative…
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