Money missing from EDC Animal Services
Placerville police are looking into what happened to $3,800 that went missing from the El Dorado County Animal Services.
The Board of Supervisors on July 22 will be discussing the missing money.
On May 28 staff from Animal Services discovered a deposit envelope with $3,800 wasn’t where it was supposed to be. And it was never found.
The board report says, “It was determined staff who were handling receipts were not following proper procedures, and since the incident a corrective action plan has been implemented. The corrective action includes staff following appropriate procedures, and having a fiscal staff member pick up the deposits daily from Animal Services to ensure timely deposits are made. Additional corrective actions may be taken depending on the outcome of the criminal investigation by the Placerville Police Department.”
Letters have been sent to the people who wrote checks asking them to send another one.
It is a board item because the department is asking “the board [to] forgive the loss of revenue and discharge (Health and Human Services Agency) from accountability for the lost revenue.”
— Lake Tahoe News staff report
“Letters have been sent to the people who wrote checks asking them to send another one.”
Seriously? If the agency can’t keep track of its money, why should people go to the trouble of paying them twice? Not to mention, the expense and bother of cancelling the first checks? Nope. I think the county should eat it. The people paid. The county messed up. Or make the people who were responsible for keeping track of that money make up the difference. Then maybe it won’t happen again.
They were promoting wildlife by throwing a party.
It’s both sad and encouraging to see that Placerville PD is trying to take on some of the County establishment. South Lake Tahoe PD has always pretty much stood their ground against EDC craziness, behind the scenes, needless to say, but Placerville PD has always seemed, from afar, more or less walked on by the County.
For those of you living in the area, you have two Police Departments, South Lake Tahoe and Placerville. Then you have a Sheriff’s Department that, like sheriff’s departments everywhere, is politically influenced and driven, sometimes for bad, occasionally for worse.
You want to learn how sheriff’s departments and their politics work, research Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
It costs money, but if you want responsible police services you’re far more likely to get them by establishing a local professional police department in your area. And then work on electing responsible politicians to your government.
Sheriff’s Departments are driven by local politics and run by politicians, aka Sheriffs. Police Departments are influenced by local politics, but only to the degree that the Chief they hire is willing to assert his independence. Which every competent Chief does and is expected by his (her) community to do. Chiefs of Police answer to no one – and, consequently, answer to the entire community.
My dog ate the money.
How appropriate Copper talking about law enforcement.
You are wrong about modern police chiefs who are bought and paid for by politically motivated city councils. Look at SFO or LAX or SEA. William Parker, police chief of LAX 50 years ago was independent but the good old days are long over.
I would much rather have the chief elected and answerable to the people as is our Sheriff John D’Agostini.
Yeah, I hope Placerville PD is better than it was 20 years ago. Worked part time in a jewelry store, and somebody brought in a piece that we had made, wanting to sell it. They were not the people we’d made it for. We kept the piece, called police. Police came, wanted to take the piece ‘for evidence’. The policeman refused to sign a receipt for the piece, so we did not give it up. How can that be honest, take an expensive piece of jewelry and not sign for it? Seriously? Never trusted P’ville PD after that.
Is this the same group that raised their fees and fines so high that people have their pets put to death because their owners can’t afford to bail them out?