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reports?” asked Supervisor Dick Latham, serving as chairman in the ailing Luke’s absence.
Davis replied that he had.
“Did you find anything irregular?” continued Latham.
“Some claims cannot be legally allowed,” Davis responded. He said he needed to check on the matter with the state agency and volunteered to explain his specific objections in executive session.
“I have no objections to discussing it in open session,” interjected Sheriff Buntin. Holding up the checks until Friday would delay their issuance until at least Monday, he maintained, and would create a hardship on the deputies who have? charged gas bills that fell due on February 1.
PAYING the mileage charges could result in an imposition on the taxpayers, countered Davis. Jf the Supervisors wanted to accept the liability for payment, they should do so knowing that reimbursement from the state might not be approved, he maintained.
Each member of the Board should have a copy of the mileage sheets for examination, said Davis. He contended that it was the Supervisors’ responsibility to “make a determination in respect to policy. We have an unusual situation,” he continued. The Board needed to decide if “patrolling major highways” and issuing traffic violation tickets are a “proper function of the sheriff’s office.”
Davis contended that these are the prime responsibility of the State Police. If the Rappahannock Sheriff’s Department continues to trespass on the State’s area of responsibility, then the Supervisors must accept that “the major
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