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Resolutions part 12 - County auditor responds
Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds has some major concerns with the amount of work done without a contract, and architectural work that apparently was finished months before it was bid out.
This was all uncovered in an ongoing investigation of the county’s relationship with Resolutions, Community Solutions and the renovation of the Court Street jail.
“It’s loose, it’s sloppy, it goes against the Ohio Revised Code,” Reynolds said.
“Butler County can’t just come to you and say I’d like you to be the go between and I’d like you to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in rehabilitating this facility,” Reynolds said. “What I’m going to continue to look into is why isn’t there a contract between Resolutions and the county to perform the rehabilitation work.”
It’s unclear why Resolutions did the work. None of the invoices passed along to the county bills for profit or administrative fees.
Resolutions stood to gain if the county took in more prisoners. But that was the case regardless of who actually renovated the jail. It’s unclear whether the agency kept the tools that it bought and billed the county for.
“Those are items that are defined in a contract. That’s why you have a contract. You define the terms of the construction ahead of time,” Reynolds said.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that if Resolutions was doing the oversight on the jail, somewhere they were being compensated for it.”
Reynolds said he is compiling records to send to the county prosecutor’s office to determine if any laws were broken. County Administrator Tim Williams said the same. Roger Gates, assistant county prosecutor, wouldn’t comment on the issue, citing closed door negotiations with Resolutions.
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By Joe
June 26, 2009 1:22 PM | Link to this
If I were to keep the tools I use at work my boss would call that THEFT.
By There's more
June 26, 2009 2:49 PM | Link to this
Check Butler Behavioral Health and Horizons too, both under Glowka. When Horizons was on Third Street their telephones were on the county system even though they weren’t county offices.
By Dorothy from Oz
June 26, 2009 3:36 PM | Link to this
There are people in the county that know the answers to all these question posed by the auditor, and many in the county know the answers… and I suspect that the auditor and county administrator are among them. …. The shock expressed by these people and others is a joke. What I really want to know is, does the Journal-News want to know these answers? …or have they found a safe whipping boy, in Resolutions.
By responsible journalism please
June 26, 2009 4:25 PM | Link to this
Interesting that this jail has been completed for sometime now, I’m sure the bills have been long paid and the county auditor is just now questioning that something may be wrong? Where does this county find the people who run Butler County. The commissioners don’t remember what they sign, or can’t read… the auditor needs some pitiful reporter to point out possible “illegal” activity… and the reporter is so bad he has to resort to a blog to post the story that his own paper doesn’t see as responsible enough to publish. Maybe it’s a good thing that the county relies on Resolutions to do all this work for them, they seem to be the only functional responsible agency involved in this story. Josh you are starting to act like a school girl, stiring up stuff then steping back to see how distorted it can get. Before you accuse Resolutions of anything as stated by Renyolds below: “There’s no doubt in my mind that if Resolutions was doing the oversight on the jail, somewhere they were being compensated for it.” Maybe you should stop in and meet Jean Glowka and Steve Best. They do a lot for this county without compensation. Jean Glowka will roll her sleeves up and scrub floors, clean toilets, pick up trash or whatever is needed to get a job done. She will also admit a mistake if makes one….The elected officals of Butler County could learn alot from her.
By Current Employee
June 26, 2009 7:19 PM | Link to this
I cannot hold my silence any longer. I for one get tired of hearing how great Jean Glowka and Steve Best are. They are business people. They are working to make money. They have done a lot for Butler County but have gotten rich doing it. For many many years they have been making deals with “past” and present county officials. Everyone who works for them knows this. What they are doing is wrong and all of their employees are going to be out of a job when someone smart enough finds out. We as employees have been told nothing. As far as I am concerned Jean and Steve and other top brass can kiss it. Maybe Jean should go back to scrubbing floors and cleaning toilets. Because she can’t run a company worth a lick. She will need it when they press criminal charges.
By Donald
June 27, 2009 1:33 AM | Link to this
Jean and Steve Best our honest hard working people. They lead by example and they work harder than most of their employees. They have been helping this county for 20 years and now this is the thanks they get, A SLAP IN THE FACE. It makes me sick to my stomach. Obviously you can not trust anyone in this government. They are in this situation because for 20 years they have tried to please Butler County Commissioners, Sheriff’s Office and the citizens of the county. Maybe you should try thanking them instead of destroying them.
By Dorothy from Oz
June 27, 2009 8:07 AM | Link to this
There are plenty of people with some explaining to do in this story. It would have been nice if Mr. Sweigert had done all of his homework before he began “reporting” partial information out of context. No one should feel sorry for Jean Glowka and Steve Best. Frequently they are without a clue; and yet they have managed to survive and prosper while they make it up as they go. The taxpayers of Butler County have never been cheated by Resolutions, Horizons, Community Behavioral Health, etc… Unfortunately, the employees of these companies cannot say the same. They have been used and scapegoated for years to save the skin of Ms. Glowka and Mr. Best; while those two were trying to keep the powers that be in Butler County happy and doing the county’s dirty work. For twenty years the Sheriff’s Office has jerked around Jean and Steve and their staff. They have squeezed favors from them, pushed them around, blamed and otherwise used them in any way they saw fit; and still when the slightest heat was put on the county regarding this relationship, the Sheriff threw Ms. Glowka and Mr. Best overboard as fast and publicly as he could. Ms. Glowka and Mr. Best are self-serving business people, who have again sacrificed their staff for their mistakes and “deals with the devil”. The Sheriff is the one that really should have trouble sleeping at night, but you have to have a conscience to experience guilt.