Let’s monitor County finances better

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. In addition to the hiring of a budget officer to help monitor the county’s finances, Commissioner Betsy Barfield is pressing for implementation of other changes to improve accountability. At a recent Jefferson County Commission meeting, Barfield shared with colleagues several documents, whose creation she credited to Phil Calandra, a local resident whom she described as a whiz in finance. Barfield went through each of the five proposed forms, whose adop