By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
The Saline County Treasurer's Office announced Wednesday morning that irregularities in the application of some tax payments had been discovered.
Saline County Treasurer Jim DuBois told Salina Post this morning that recently some anomalies in the process had been discovered.
In a statement released this morning, DuBois noted that "the Saline County Treasurer’s Office recently discovered irregularities in the application of tax payments from escrow accounts established directly with the Treasurer’s Office. Accounts where your taxes are paid by a lending institution are not affected. All tax payments have now been properly credited. However, we are engaging the assistance of an outside firm to examine how these issues occurred and what other steps we can take to prevent similar problems in the future."
DuBois declined to provide specifics about how the issue happened and how it was discovered as the investigation is still in progress. He said more information would be released when he is able to do so.
He also encouraged taxpayers to cooperate with the probe should they be contacted to help the treasurer's office verify information.