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Bonner County meeting raises questions about who pays the fair bookkeeper and how large fair funds are overseen
Summary
Commissioners and Fair Board members on March 23 discussed whether the fair's bookkeeper is a county employee or contractor, who should pay the position, banking oversight for a fair account said to hold hundreds of thousands of dollars at times, and shortfalls in fair revenue.
Bonner County commissioners and Fair Board members spent much of a March 23 special meeting detailing how the fair handles pay and accounting and exploring changes to improve fiscal oversight.
The Fair Board has used a contracted outside bookkeeper to manage finances, but a recent county legal opinion states the Fair Board secretary, manager and treasurer are county employees. That raised practical and legal questions: if the treasurer/bookkeeper is a county employee, does the county pay the salary and does that change the contractor’s access to county legal advice?
"If the legal opinion says that the role of the treasurer... is an employee, they would get access to…
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