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Comm. Minutes--June 7, 1993 1040 14. 15. RESOLUTIONS #1993-13 & 1993-14 SPECIAL ASSESSMENT DISTRICT, Windsor Green Subdivision Kevin Bucholz of Moore Engineering requested Commission approval of the plans and specifications for Windsor Green Subdivision special assessment district. MOTION, passed Mr. Ness moved and Mr. Risher seconded to authorize the Chairman to sign Resolution #1993-13 approving plans and specifications for improvements in street improvement district No. 93-1 and to sign Resolution #1993-14 directing auditor to advertise for bids. On roll call vote, motion carried unanimously. AUDIT REPORT, State Auditor's Office Jim Brownlee was present to review the recent audit performed by the State Auditor's Office for the year ended December 31, 1992, and he said Cass County Government received a clean opinion for the second year in a row. In the management letter to the board of commissioners, Mr. Brownlee said the clerk of county court had not updated the trust fund since August, 1992, and he recommended keeping it updated. Also, he recommended the clerk of county court deposit the bail money with the county treasurer on a weekly basis, and more often when there are large sums of money. Activities of the public administrator were reviewed. Mr. Brownlee said there has been some dispute as to whether expenses claimed are allowable under social service regulations. He recommended that disputed claims be resolved according to the public administrator's contract. Also, the public administrator stated that she currently has over 70 cases and is spending in excess of 70 hours per week on these cases. Mr. Brownlee suggested investigating alternatives to reduce this amount of work. Compensation paid to board members of the water resource districts was reviewed, and it appears that one board member's compensation is out of the ordinary. The compensation paid in 1992 to a board member of the Southeast Cass Water Resource District was $16,880 for per diem and $3,114.75 for mileage. The per diem was for 331 days worked in 1992, or an average of 28 days per month. The mileage claimed was for 12,459 miles traveled. Mr. Brownlee said audit tests did not find any legal violations because all per diem and travel was submitted and approved by the full board of the Southeast Cass Water Resource District, but the amounts were out of the ordinary in that they were more than double that of the other members of that board. MOTION, passed Mr. Risher moved and Mr. Ness seconded that the Cass County Board of Commissioners requests the Chairman of Southeast Cass Water Resource District to appear before this county commission at the next meeting to substantiate the funds he received for per diem and mileage. On roll call vote, motion carried unanimously.