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NOW. TONIGHT WE ARE LEARNING MORE ABOUT HOW THE MADISON COUNTY TREASURER’S OFFICE OPERATED UNDER AMANDA DEVOS. SHE’S CHARGED WITH FOUR CRIMES RELATED TO HER ROLE AS COUNTY TREASURER. OVER THE WEEKEND. THE CITY OF WINTERSET SAYS THE TREASURER GAVE THEM TOO MUCH MONEY FROM THE TAX INCREMENT FUND. AN EXTRA QUARTER OF $1 MILLION. ����vlog BEAU BOWMAN IS LIVE IN PATTERSON, A SMALL TOWN IN MADISON COUNTY, TONIGHT TO EXPLAIN HOW THEY GOT THE SHORT END OF THE STICK. BO. YEAH. LAUREN JODI THIS NEIGHBORHOOD RIGHT HERE IN PATTERSON IS JUST ONE OF THE AREAS ALL THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY THAT IS AFFECTED BY THIS. ESSENTIALLY, THEIR PROPERTY TAXES ARE SUPPOSED TO GO THROUGH THE COUNTY TREASURER, AND THEN THAT’S ALLOCATED TO THE CITY OF PATTERSON SO THEY CAN PAY THE DEVELOPER THAT HELPED BUILD THIS NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT THAT MONEY HAS ACTUALLY BEEN GOING TO THE CITY OF WINTERSET. WINTERSET BY MISTAKE, WHICH MEANS PATTERSON’S HANDS ARE TIED UNTIL THEY CAN FIGURE OUT A SOLUTION. BASICALLY, NOT DOING OUR JOB IS THE WAY I’LL PUT IT. RALEIGH ROBBINS IS THE MAYOR OF PATTERSON. HE SAYS HIS CITY IS MISSING OUT ON ABOUT $15,000 FOR THEIR TAX INCREMENT FUND THAT WAS ALLOCATED TO WINTERSET. BY MISTAKE. THINGS NEED TO GET BETTER ACROSS THE BOARD, THROUGH THE COUNTY. YOU KNOW, THAT JOB SHOULD BE A PERSON THAT’S THERE EVERY DAY. THE CITY OF WINTERSET SENT OUT A PRESS RELEASE CLAIMING THEY NOTICED THE $258,000 IN MISALLOCATED FUNDS BACK IN OCTOBER, NOTIFIED THE COUNTY TREASURER, AMANDA DEVOS, BUT DIDN’T HEAR BACK FOR MONTHS THROUGH EMAILS BETWEEN THE CITY OF WINTERSET, THE COUNTY TREASURER AND COUNTY SUPERVISORS VOTED BY ����vlog ON MONDAY, DEVOS SOLUTION FINALLY CAME IN LATE JANUARY, SAYING SHE WOULD JUST ALLOCATE LESS MONEY TO WINTERSET IN THE FUTURE AND ALLOCATE MORE TO PATTERSON, WEST DES MOINES AND THE COUNTY TO MAKE UP FOR THE ERROR. BUT THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR FOR WINTERSET, DREW BARTON, HAD TO INFORM HER THAT WOULD BE ILLEGAL. BARTON SAYS HE CUT A CASHIER’S CHECK FOR ALL THE MONEY THEY WERE MISTAKENLY GIVEN, BUT AS OF MONDAY IS UNAWARE IF IT’S BEEN CASHED. ROBBINS SAYS IF IT’S NOT FIXED, THERE’S NO WAY FOR THEM TO PAY THE DEVELOPER. WE HAVEN’T BEEN ABLE TO FULFILL OUR OBLIGATION BECAUSE SHE WOULD NOT REMEDY THAT SITUATION AND GET US OUR MONEY. NOW, I DID SPEAK WITH A COUNTY SUPERVISOR AND THE COUNTY ATTORNEY TODAY HERE IN MADISON COUNTY. THEY TOLD ME THERE WAS A MEETING THIS AFTERNOON WHERE THEY WERE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT TO DO. I WAS TOLD LATER THAT THEY DID COME UP WITH A SOLUTION. THEY JUST COULDN’T SHARE ANY OF THE DETAILS JUST YET BECAUSE IT HASN’T BEEN APPROVED BY EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN MADISON