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County counsel outlines financial management and procurement draft; recommends splitting ordinance and policy
Summary
Mister Strickland reviewed a roughly 50‑page draft financial management document and recommended keeping high-level, codified items in ordinance while moving operational details to a policy adopted by resolution; he also flagged grants, audit rotation, procurement thresholds, and ethics overlap as items needing further work ahead of Feb. 15 deadlines.
County counsel (referred to in the meeting as Mister Strickland) walked the board through a red-line draft of the county’s financial management and procurement policies, recommending a split between text that should be codified in ordinance and content better handled as an administratively updated policy adopted by resolution.
Strickland said many reporting, budgeting, and internal-operation provisions are more appropriately kept in a working policy that staff and the board can update by resolution, while certain items (for example, fiscal-year definitions…
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