Two Years And $50,000 Later, County Board Pulls Plug On Finance Department Stipends
By Craig Manning | Jan. 17, 2025
For more than two years, Leelanau County has kept its finance department afloat by paying weekly stipends to County Clerk Michelle Crocker and Chief Deputy Clerk Jennifer Zywicki to provide ongoing support for the fledgling office. Now those stipends are sunsetting, with a February 21 kill date and no support from the county’s Board of Commissioners to extend them. At least one county board member worries that eliminating the stipends will destabilize a department that has only recently found its footing after years of strife.
All the way back in October 2022, Crocker made a proposal to the Board of Commissioners that the county finance director should temporarily report to …
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