At Shiawassee it is Sunday, August 27, 2006 - 19:53:23 EDT .
Refund other fees collected illegally .
kaylor -- Thursday, 24 August 2006, at 6:57 p.m. .
In 2004 the county commissioners were made aware that they were illegally overcharging for kennel license fees. .
Maybe the whole board needs to be thrown in jail. .
State law allows for a kennel license fee of $10 or $25. The county, as approved by the board of commissioners, was charging $30 and $60 for who knows how many years. .
They lowered it to the legal amounts in 2005, but they have made no effort to refund the illegal overcharge. .
Actually, they added an "annual inspection" fee to make up the "lost revenue". I'm not so sure that is legal, either. .
So, how come the ex-drain commissioner gets charged with "embezzlement" and the county refunds these fees charged by the current drain commissioner, but nobody gets charged with anything nor do they refund the illegal overcharge on kennel fees? .
Re: Refund other fees collected illegally .
cpdc
-- Thursday, 24 August 2006, at 7:04 p.m. . We need an term limits, salary caps, and an Inspector General. .
Re: Refund other fees collected illegally .
kaylor
-- Friday, 25 August 2006, at 8:48 a.m. . "“It was an illegal charge to these people,” county Prosecutor Randy Colbry said." .
As quoted in the Argus Press article,
www.argus-press.com/articles/2006/08/23/news/news1.txt
referring to the 'waiver' fees charged by the drain commissioner for soil erosion inspections ...... .
So what????....why is this a bigger deal than illegally overcharging the kennel owners? and in most cases a bit more than $25, too. .
EVERYBODY admits this was an illegal overcharge. .
NOBODY does anything to refund the overcharges. .
I guess they aren't on a witch hunt in the Animal Control area.......... .
and the Shiawassee County Board of Commissioners just rubber stamps whatever the prosecutor wants??? .
We need more than an inspector general..
