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Commissioners consider judge’s pick for community corrections mental-health administrator amid name discrepancy
Summary
A judge-recommended appointment to the county’s community corrections mental-health administrator post was discussed; the email named Amanda Bollins but the motion put forward used the name Amanda Owens, a discrepancy noted in the record and with no clear roll-call vote recorded in the transcript.
The Rush County commissioners discussed appointing a mental-health administrator for the community corrections program after Judge Hill emailed that state code requires the county executive make the appointment.
Speaker 6 told the board the previous administrator, Lisa Crowley, had left and that Judge Hill recommended Amanda Bollins to fill the role. Speaker 3 and Speaker 5 then moved and seconded a motion “to put Amanda Owens on as the mental health administrator on community corrections,” according to the meeting record. The motion was made and seconded but a clear roll-call vote in the transcript is not recorded for this item.
Why it matters: Under the statute cited in the meeting…
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