How much additional schooling is enough? Our Treasure Jeannine Myers is a fountain of knowledge and willing to give her all to her
job. She just finished a annual training, actually continuous training, with the Indiana league of Municipal clerks and Treasure.
Jeannine Myers also attends another annual training around July of every year.
She comments, “ I just want to know all that I can to better do my job and to answer peoples questions”. This is a great dedication to the city that she has given. And she continues her updating about the
laws constantly.
The staff at the Clerks office is among the most courteous people in our city. I have
been in this department many times asking for something that really was a difficult
thing to find. The workers are willing to go “the extra mile” to do what they can to help
anyone. That is why I cannot understand it when I hear people state, “They wouldn’t
give me that information”.
I was just at the clerk’s office and was asking for some documents. The results were
the same every time I visit. This time was JuWana Lanham was helping me and went through the extra mile and then some to assist me.
When we finally got the information I was so impressed at the effort JuWana put out.
Juwana we give one Atta-boy for your hard work.
City Clerk Just Wants Records Right
Fire Department cannot legally get appropriations from general fund
The Greenwood Fire Department
has asked the city Council for $131,000 in appropriations. They stated that this would not be a loan and is needed because of the
unexpected expenses like the rise in fuel cost and other expenses and they would not pay it back because of shortages in funding.
The Council has no problems giving the fire department the additional funds but where it comes from is an issue that is stirring quite a squabble. The Mayor says he can use the funds in the CCI Cigarette tax to transfer to the general fund for the fire department.
Jeannine
Myers Clerk-Treasure of Greenwood pointed out that the Fire department was not part of the general fund and that the funds would have
to be paid back. The Mayor did not agree with that analogy at the Council meeting Monday December 3rd, 2007 and still does not agree.
Mrs.
Myers has spent a great deal of time learning about the laws for city clerk operations. She has taken her job quite seriously and
more importantly knows the law quite well. When she has an issue come up that someone has disagreed with her interpretation of the
law she seeks clarification from the state, and people like Charlie Pride the state board of accounts.
This is not the first
issue Mrs. Myers has had with the Administration. The more publicly known one is the issue of the Mayor’s travel expenses and how
they were used. At the request of Councilman Ron Bates, that issue has spurred the beginning of an ordinance that will help guide
the rules for handling travel expenses. Margaret McGovern, a past Mayor of Greenwood, says before Henderson took office city employees
never got money in advance for travel. They always submitted receipts for meals and miscellaneous for reimbursement after a trip and
never before.
Jeannine Myers (Clerk-Treasurer) & Paige Gregory (Umbaugh Assoc.) both verified that the funds in the CCI cigarette
account could not be appropriated but would instead have to be a loan, as well as Charlie Pride of the State board of accounts. The
fire department does not fall within the General funds accounts.
Where this leaves the Fire Department is unclear. In the past
they could move funds around and make the bills. But now they need these funds to balance their books by the end of the year. They
do not have any extra money around in other accounts.
