Meier defends expenditures; previous reviews didn’t question spending
By Matt Reinig | Kingman Daily Miner
A state audit concluded the Mohave County Recorder’s Office misused about $150,000 in collected fees last year meant for specified tech purposes.
The Auditor General report released last month shows the Recorder’s Office funded $146,000 in employee salaries and $769 in travel costs from a fund state law designates is to be used only for purchasing and updating hardware and software, training employees to operate and maintain the system, or paying for equipment maintenance.
The fund, called the County Recorder’s Document Storage and Retrieval Conversion and Maintenance Fund, was established in 2001 and allowed counties with less than 750,000 residents to charge a $4 fee to help fund the conversion of hardcopy documents to electronic, automated computer storage systems.
