Goldsack Speaks About Resignation (Pike County Courier)
Former Director of Elections Yolanda Goldsack spoke out at the Commissioners Meeting this week with a prepared statement that indicated she no longer wants another County position after resigning from her old one. She blasted the Pike County Democratic Committee for what she described was an orchestrated strategy to create distrust in the elections system, and criticized the County Commissioners for not defending her after she was told she could not respond to the perceived attacks. She vowed to set the record straight in the coming weeks.
Civil rights suit filed against Pike County (PoconoNews.net)
Dawn Metzger, former Director of Pike County Children and Youth services, filed a federal civil lawsuit against the County this week. She claims that the County violated her rights to free speech because she was immediately suspended and then fired after she reported Commissioner Harry Forbes to a state agency for inappropriately interfering in a particular case. County Solicitor Tom Farely expressed confidence the case would not get far.
The Pike County Auditors have used a court order to obtain documents pertaining to 2008 grants they claim were not provided by the County. Auditor Tom Foran says the County had two weeks to comply and did not.
In a separate legal case, the auditors won a lawsuit against the County after they were denied an extension to complete this year's audit (as they have for the past several years).
Commissioner Rich Caridi said the cost of extending the deadline to last year's date in October would cost the County over $100,000. Pike County President Judge Joseph Kameen ruled in favor of the auditors saying, "The commissioners have not cited to a single factual example of auditor impropriety, delay, misfeasance or indolence in support of their claim."
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