Commissioners dole out remains of finance office

Whitman County Auditor Eunice Coker was given $70,331 by county commissioners Monday to begin piecing back together the county’s finance department.

The money, which was budgeted this year for the now defunct finance department, will be used to hire a new finance director that would work under the auditor.

“I want you to succeed with this,” Commissioner Greg Partch told Coker Monday afternoon. “I can’t tell you how much of a pain in the butt the finance department has been over the last couple of years. I want you to succeed.”

The new hire will be responsible for putting together the county’s...