Is there something in the water out here in boony-ville?
Seems the auditors even need to be audited! 


"The state auditor’s office launched an investigation of Skamania County Auditor J. Michael Garvison this week after the county’s former prosecuting attorney released expense reports that he said showed Garvison has billed county taxpayers for tens of thousands of dollars in questionable travel expenses in recent years.

As of September, Garvison, 38, had billed the county about $32,000 for travel in 2009, including trips to conferences in Las Vegas, Washington, D.C., Montreal, and twice to Florida, according to records. In 2008, the tab for Garvison’s travels came to nearly $51,000.

In January alone, taxpayers in the county of 10,800 reimbursed Garvison for more than $7,500 in travel costs, more than the auditor’s entire annual travel budget in 2002, the year Garvison was appointed to the post. He won election to a four-year term later that year and was re-elected in 2006."
Tab $32,000 so far in ’09; Garvison says he’ll quit in 4 months

BY KATHIE DURBIN
COLUMBIAN STAFF WRITER\

read more in the Columbian
http://www.columbian.com/article/20091029/NEWS02/710299945/-1/NEWSLOCAL