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Posted by: Paul Burch on Feb 27, 2024

The Tennessee Comptroller's Office is sending a team to Shelby County to "perform the necessary reconciliations and reporting the clerk's office has failed to accurately provide despite repeated requests," reports the Commercial Appeal. The move comes after County Trustee Regina Newman told commissioners she will be un-posting revenue reports from County Clerk Wanda Halbert's office because of incorrect reports. "The evidence of incompetence and willful neglect by management in the Shelby County Clerk's Office is overwhelming," said Comptroller of the Treasury Jason E. Mumpower. The inaccurate revenue reports have resulted in the county’s delinquency on payments to public schools and not knowing if wheel tax revenues are being met as forecasted.