In wake of Sheriff's office embezzlement, Clerk of Court and Comptroller Hunter S. Conrad to Provide "Spin?"

At the Tuesday, December 4, 2018 County Commission meeting, Clerk of Courts and Comptroller HUNTER S. CONRAD is set to make a presentation on financial controls and checks and balances. It's agenda item 5.

In violation of St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners's "13-day rule" for BoCC agenda items, the paperwork for item 5 for December 4, 2018 was only filed on Tuesday, November 27, 2018.

Ask CONRAD questions, including the role of disgraced former St. Augustine City Manager WILLIAM BARRY HARRISS in SJSO spending, including the ST. JOHNS COUNTY SHERIFF's OFFICR FOUR STAR ASSOCIATION, INC.

Ask CONRAD about how Deputy JEREMY BANKS paid legal fees for his lawsuit against FDLE Special Agent Rusty Ray Rodgers.

HUNTER S. CONRAD is Sheriff SHOAR's mentee, a callow fellow hand-picked by Governor RICHRD LYNN SCOTT over the career deputy who filed to run for the job.

Political opportunist looking to cover for the County political boss."

The "spin" presentation comes just two weeks after nearly $700,000 embezzlement resulted in arrest of Sheriff's Finance Director.

Here's the only document on the County's website on this presentation:
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
Hunter S. Conrad, St. Johns County Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, will provide an overview of the financial controls in place for the Board of County Commissioners. All departments of the St. Johns County Board of County Commissioners are subject to a system of checks and balances as prescribed by State law that includes the Clerk of the Circuit Court and Comptroller, an independent, elected constitutional officer. The Clerk function provides a separation of duties through financial reporting, day-to-day accounting, and auditing activities. In addition, the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report is conducted annually per Florida Statute as an independent audit.


Ask questions. Demand answers. Expect Democracy. There's a forensic audit, in progress. Don't take no for an answer. Insist that constitutional officers present their annual budgets one month earlier, as Florida law allows Commission to require. 

Then give Sheriff Shoar what Judge Nahum Litt would call the thermal equivalent of a "proctological examination with dental tools." Leave no stone untunrnd. And don't let SHOAR get away with any more Trumpery, flummery, dupery and nincompoopery, like lying to Commissioners about $2 million FBI check that did not exist





On the campaign trail
Janet and Dale Westling (front) welcome (from left) Clerk of Circuit Court Hunter Conrad, Sheriff David Shoar and former Jacksonville Sheriff and congressional candidate John Rutherford to the Aug. 19 candidate meet and greet held at their Ponte Vedra Beach home.
Janet and Dale Westling (front) welcome (from left) Clerk of Circuit Court Hunter Conrad, Sheriff David Shoar and former Jacksonville Sheriff and congressional candidate John Rutherford to the Aug. 19 candidate meet and greet held at their Ponte Vedra Beach home.
PHOTO BY SUSAN GRIFFIN, Ponte Vedra Recorder

Posted Thursday, August 25, 2016 12:00 am
Local residents had an opportunity to meet some of the candidates whose names will appear on the Aug. 30 primary election ballot last week, when Dale and Janet Westling held a free “candidate meet and greet” at their Sawgrass Country Club home.
Among the candidates in attendance were Clerk of Circuit Court Hunter Conrad and St. Johns County Sheriff David Shoar – both of whom are running for re-election – and former Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford, who is running for U.S. Congress in the 4th congressional district.