Is there anything else that can be done about the missing money since the GBI won't go any further and the DA won't convict? Also never heard of Tyrone's Citizens Complaint Board, when did we have one? Why don't you consider running for election?

The council could have asked the DA to follow up, but they never did spoke to him. Barring that, any council member could have asked the states’ justice dept to investigate the failure of the government to follow their ordinance on their employee payment plan. Each council member was asked to do this but choose to ignore the request. The council could ask the people who took the money to pay it back, but never did. In fact they paid the employees twice, fearing a lawsuit if they did anything to get the money back. They also can file a civil suit to reclaim the money, but would rather pay their lawyers only to fight their citizens from correcting wrong doings.

The records show that prior to the hiring of Barry Amos as Town manager in 1996, Tyrone had a Citizen Complaint Board which worked very well. But no one knows what happened to it. The council doesn’t like complaints by citizens, so I suppose they did away with it, although I do not recall any vote on that. But that’s nothing since Tyrone never has brought forward all of its past ordinances. They actually budgeted money to re-codify the ordinances in 2007, but never spent it. That’s $6000 went out the window when Barry & Valerie paid themselves excessive vacation & OT pay in Nov. 2007. Look at the 2007 budget, you’ll see where the money was appropriated.

I’ll run for council if you and one other honest person will. It takes 3 to tango in Tyrone.

I appreciate the information. Is their a time frame for which the council has to work under to prosecute B&V? I would run, but quite frankly I am not conniving enough to be in politics.

It's too bad that Ben Nelms doesn't check with the many employees that have left the town on their own will (not counting the 2 that were forced to leave)in the last 1 1/2 years to find out the true reasons they left which might not be the ones that were given to the town. Some good and dedicated employees have come and gone thanks to micromanagement and those in control that have forced big town government into our town. Let's see we've lost a town manager and town clerk, not by choice, public works employees, police officers, administrative staff at the police department, bookkeeper (but how many were hired to fill her position), and now the replacement town clerk. Whats the problem here?

If you won't say it Spot, then I will-

Penny Hunter is the problem