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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017
Thompson: Nearly $20,000 claimed in expenses
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since July 1. The fi ve commis-
sioners combined are allocated
$17,500 total for the year.
“No other commissioner
has ever come near to spending
their full allotment,” Lee said.
Lee wrote a letter to
Thompson in March asking her
to watch her spending. She had
claimed $7,328 in expenses
during the fi rst nine months of
the fi scal year.
Thompson pushed back at
a meeting in April, pointing to
what she viewed as a lack of a
concrete vision or goals from
other commissioners.
During the last fi scal year,
commissioners were granted
only $13,500 for expenses. At
the April meeting, the board
voted to direct an additional
$2,000 to cover expenses,
and the allocation was raised
by $4,000 this year when the
county budget was adopted.
Thompson has claimed
nearly $20,000 in her two years
and nine months since being
elected as a commissioner.
Lee said the money should be
spent on liaison and committee
assignments, rather than the
trainings and conferences that
Thompson has often attended.
He referred to the conferences
and trainings as “mutual admi-
ration societies” that are not
relevant to county business.
Lee directed staff Wednes-
day to schedule an agenda item
at the board’s Nov. 8 meet-
ing regarding the expenses. As
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Clatsop County Commissioner Kathleen Sullivan, left, and Commissioner Lianne Thomp-
son, right, listen to a presentation at a board of commissioners meeting held in May.
chairman, he has the power to
approve or not approve com-
missioner expense claims.
Commissioners will hold a dis-
cussion at that meeting before
Lee approves Thompson’s
expenses. They also may set
more specifi c policies.
“It’s something that I feel
rises to the level where the
board needs to have a discus-
sion,” Lee said.
‘Unacceptable’
Commissioners also com-
mented on an incident in June
in which Thompson allegedly
placed her hands on a county
employee and spoke in a loud
and frustrated tone about
Moore after a Red Cross meet-
ing at Fort Clatsop.
At the meeting, Thomp-
son allegedly placed her hands
on either the hands or, accord-
ing to a witness, upper arms
near the shoulders of a county
employee, who has not been
named.
Prior to the contact, she
said she “was the only com-
missioner on the board who
worked.” During the contact,
she allegedly asked in a vocif-
erous tone, “Do you know
what he did?” in reference to
Moore. She then claimed the
county manager had inten-
tionally scheduled a meet-
ing in May so she would not
be able to attend.
The investigation con-
cluded that she was acting in
her role as commissioner at the
time and that the incident vio-
lated board behavior policy.
“Putting her hands on staff
and insisting that they do what
she wants them to do, putting
them in those diffi cult positions
is unacceptable to me,” Com-
missioner Sarah Nebeker said
Wednesday. “It is a distraction
for staff when they are striving
to get their work accomplished
in a timely manner. I do not
support this behavior that con-
tinues to be extremely diffi -
cult. It wastes their time, our
time and, therefore, county tax
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dollars.”
In lieu of discipline, Port-
land-based labor attorney
Heather Martin sent a letter to
Thompson through her attor-
ney earlier this month in what
Lee said would be the fi nal cor-
respondence about the matter.
In the letter, Martin explains
that Thompson may “be held
personally liable” for similar
behavior in the future if it leads
to a lawsuit against the county.
“Even if there were no
applicable board policies,
which there are, your actions
directed toward the employee
in question fell below the
level of decorum expected
by a county leader toward an
employee, and any continued
actions of a similar manner
have the possibility of creat-
ing a hostile work environment
or other legal liabilities, which
the county cannot tolerate.”
The letter also claims that
Thompson’s
Salem-based
attorney, David Kramer, threat-
ened to pursue legal action
against the county if the board
attempted to meet about the
subject again. Martin writes
that there would be “no legal
basis for a declaratory judg-
ment or temporary restraining
order in this situation.”
Fear of retaliation
In a July email with The
Daily Astorian about the inves-
tigation, Thompson claimed
that both she and county staff
have a fear of retaliation if they
publicly express their concerns
about county government.
Moore has since called for an
investigation into the claim.
“We follow up on all
employee concerns. This one
sort of came to us in a little bit
different way than we might
typically hear about it,” Moore
said at a September meeting.
“It’s a little bit vague to me
about what the concerns are,
and I was particularly con-
cerned about anybody having
any fears of retaliation. I don’t
think anybody should ever
have to worry about that.”
It was not the fi rst time
Thompson had criticized
Moore, who was hired by
commissioners last year in
hopes that he would create
more executive stability. She
and Commissioner Kathleen
Sullivan questioned in May
whether or not commission-
ers were suffi ciently active in
county decision-making.
Commissioner Lisa Clem-
ent, as well as Nebeker,
defended Moore on Wednes-
day. She also suggested
that clearer policies regard-
ing commissioners’ behavior
with staff be adopted in the
future.
“It concerns me when the
line between commissioners’
roles and county employees
is crossed,” Clement said. “It
concerns me that things have
become so awry that our man-
ager is placed in a position to
inform us that he needs to pro-
tect his staff from contact with
the board.”
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