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County Treasurer
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The County Treasurer is the Custodian of the funds for the county with a staff of 6, as the department is responsible for the receipting, depositing, overseeing and investing of county funds, currently in excess of $300 million.
The role requires a thorough understanding of the county's investments and strategies, their potential and realized returns and the management of funds to cover county expenses.
The department is responsible for the accounts payable for the county, payroll for more than 2,200 employees, for the administration of the bail bond collateral rates, housing the Montgomery County Bail Bond Board Administrator, the processing of all jury funds, the compiling of fees and fines that must be reported to the state comptroller’s office, as well as unclaimed property for the citizens of Montgomery County.
RACE RESULTS
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Eagle Forum - Candidate Debate 1/18/18 Source 
Submitted by john wertz on 2018-03-11 04:55:38
Challenger Melanie Bush squares off against incumbent Stephanne Davemport
Major Issues
- Employee payroll confidentiality breaches emanate from County Treasure
- County treasurer noncompliant with posting balance statements
- Tax Liens owed to state
- Whether or not the Treaurers Office is even needed anymore
- Nepotism Claims during an attempted promotion of the County Judges(Craig Doyal) daughter Lyndsey to Associate Treasurer. Ms. Doyal eventually withdrew her name after extreme pressure.
- Whether or not doing payroll inside the department is cheaper to do that an outside contract payroll service
- Secretive Policies and Procedures Manual. **UPDATE** 3/10/18 (post-election) - Lambright believes treasurer's data breach avoidable; Davenport says her office followed AG ruling on redactions. ".... No surprise that it’s junk...". **UPDATE** 3/20/18 Commissioners Court (Surprisingly) takes No Action"; ** UPDATE** 2/28/18 Embattled County Treasurer Davenport to cost taxpayers a fortune in employee mitigation expenses…but there’s a catch
- Corruptibility Index
- Campaign is heating up for embattled incumbant Stephanne Davenport
- Campaign Finance Reports
