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A RESOLUTION PREFERRING CHARGES OF MISCONDUCT IN THE
PERFORMANCE OF THE DUTIES OF HIS OFFICE AGAINST ROSS RUTTER, C01'.MI SIONER
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(F PUBLIC FINANCE, AND FIXING A DATE FOR A BEARING OF' SUCH CHARGES, AND Wr
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PROVIDING FOR THE EtTLOYMENT OF A STENOGRAPIiIC REPORTER FOR SAID HEARING,
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AND PROVIDING FOR THE PROCURE14ENT AND ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES FOR SAID
HEARING.
WHEREAS, by an audit of the records of the office of the
Commissioner of Public Finance for the year 1930, made by an employed
accountant, E.H. Cocke, it has developed that a shortage or deficit.
existed in the accounts of said Commissioner of Public Finance, and that
said audit was by reason thereof and at the request of said Commissioner
of Public Finance, delayed until said Commissioner could make good
said deficit or shortage, and
WHEREAS, said commissioner, after some delay, is said to
have deposited funds to cover said deficit or shortage so as to balance
the accounts in his office for the year 1930, and
l"•1HEPEAS, it is brought to the attention of the Mayor and
members of the Board of Commissioners that the funds used in covering
or absorbing said deficit or shortage were improperly taken from another
fund or account in the office of said Commissioner of Public Finance,
according to information furnished by said Commissioner of Public
Finance, NOW, THEREFORE,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE BOARD OF CO1VMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF PAIXICAH, KEP]TUCKY:
SECTION 1.
That a charge of misconduct in the performance cf the duties
of his office by the said Ross Rutter, Commissioner of Public Finance,
because of the matters set out in the preamble hereto be now preferred
against him, and that a public hearing of said charges be had befdre
the Board of Commissioners sitting for said purpose in the Commissioners'
Chamber in the City Hall in the City of Paducah at 10:00 o'clock in the
forenoon on Thursday, August 13th 1931, at which hearing the said
Commissioner of Public Finance, Ross Rutter, shall have the right to be
represented by counsel and to have witnesses summoned in his behalf and
required to testify.
SECTION 2.
For the purpose of affording both the City of Paducah
and the said Commissioner of Public Finance ample opportunity for briaginl
before said hearing witnesses whom they may desire to be introduced and
to have testify, the Judge of the Police Court of said city is authorised
and instructed to issue subpoenas for said witnesses and to require and
compel the attendance of said witnesses at said hearing, and the Chief
of Police and all police officers of said city are hereby authorized
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Instructed and directed to execute any and all process for the
)ringing of said witnesses before the Board of Commissioners at said
searing, and the said Judge of said Police Court is further
mthorized, directed and empowered to swear all such witnesses, or
laid witnesses may be sworn by any Notary Public in the presence d'
iaid'Board of Commissioners at said hearing. The Board of
;ommissioners will report their findings of fact and their conclusions
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.hereupon and their reasons for their decision upon said hearing so
hat the same may become a public record as provided by Taw.
SECTION 3,
After the adoption of this resolution a copy of same,
igned by the Mayor, shall be delivered to the said Ross Rutter, and
he adoption of said resolution by the Beard of Commissioners shall
onstitu to notice to the said Ross Rutter, Commissioner of Public
finance, of all of the matters contained herein.
SECTION 4.
This resolution shall be in full force and effect upon
is adoption by the Board of Commissioners.
Signed
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Passed by the Board of Commissioners August 10, 1931
Recorded by Runt Xrossland, Clergy:, August ill 1931