Julesburg Resident Files Paperwork for Sedgwick County Commissioners Recall

Julesburg resident Jimmy Hunter of 300 East Third Street filed Paperwork on Monday, July 21^st, to recall the three County Commissioners from Sedgwick County. The filings took place at the Sedgwick County Clerk’s Office, as the petitions will make their rounds for signatures beginning late Friday, as each of the three commissioners will be given three full days to give a rebuttal. There are three separate petitions, one for each commissioner: Ron Berges of District #1, John Fryar from District #2, and Darrin Tobin of District #3. There has been a general statement issued as grounds for the recall, which reads as follows:

Voters of Sedgwick County have determined a need to recall the Commissioners in each respective district. The Current Commissioners have demonstrated incompetence in multiple areas of their job as outlined below, along with others not listed.

1. They allowed an employee with complete access to all employees’ private information to work from home and bypass all county firewalls, allowing a hack to occur that the contracted IT service couldn’t stop and has not made an effort to protect the employees' credit since this breach.

2. The finance and payroll department is in complete collapse, with the auditors and accountants unable to get accurate reports. Late fees are being added unnecessarily because the commissioners have not managed to review the bills and payroll each month, despite desperate requests from department heads/elected officials for the board to acknowledge these issues.

3. Their obvious attempt to discredit and dismantle the highly successful SCOR Community Center.

4. Crippling funding of public safety entities such as the Sheriff’s Office, Communications Center, and EMS, as well as other departments, all while continuing to fund a second Economic Development within the county and shifting funds into that office. It’s time for a better change.

There are different numbers of signatures needed for each commissioner to be recalled, based on the time of their election. The petitioner has 60 days to gather the required signatures to move the recall to the next phase. This is a developing story