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599 what happened but I am not comfortable excepting a resignation under these 600 circumstances. 601 602 CHERYL GREENE: The County is the source of revenue for the director's 603 position and for this Commission, by merit of that they have some authority. The basis 604 by which Mr. Talley met with the County Commissioners involved some questions raised 605 by the State Board of Accounts related to accounting for which the County does take 606 responsibility. There is an on going investigation into concerns with respect to 607 bookkeeping. I met with the County Commissioners and I am not convinced that anyone 608 was pressured to do anything. I believe that questions were raised, I am not suggesting 609 that there were wrong doing on anyone's part, some people are just not as exacting in 610 their bookkeeping methods as an accountant simply because they do not have the 611 understanding of how to do things. The question comes up, did the County have the 612 authority to terminate Mr. Talley, I am not certain, I believe it is a mute point since Mr. 613 Talley reported to me that he would not be serving in this position and has in fact since 614 that day has not reported to this office. Did the County apply pressure? I do not believe 615 so; I think they asked questions, which they had every right to do as the financial agency. 616 I am making no judgment one way or another, all am doing is reporting to you that 617 irrespective of how this vacancy occurred the fact remains you have someone who is no 618 longer reporting in that position and by that very fact alone, leads me to the conclusion 619 that this person has resigned their position. 620 621 GERALD UJDAK: You stated earlier that Ed Talley had informed you that he 622 had resigned. Later remarks did not quite mesh with this statement, would you please 623 clarify. 624 625 CHERYL GREENE: Let me explain. My first inkling that there were any 626 problems was when the Investigative Bureau of the State looking into financial matters 627 on behalf of the State Board of Accounts contacted me on August 3, 2000. I met with 628 them, Aladean DeRose, the Commissions previous council met with them as well. I left 629 from this meeting and returned to my office. I received a telephone call about a half an 630 hour later from Mr. Talley to advice me that he had turned in his keys and that he was 631 leaving the office. He implied that he had been terminated, but I had nothing in front of 632 me that stated he had been terminated. Approximately a week later Mr. Oxian and I met 633 with the County Commissioners. I talked to them about the issues that had come up and 634 the vacancy that existed. When I walked out I was under the impression that Mr. Talley 635 had resigned his position. 636 637 JOHN OXIAN: I received a telephone call about a half an hour after Mr. Talley 638 had spoken with the County Commissioners, from Beverly Crone. Ms. Crone told me 639 that Mr. Talley had resigned. Mr. Talley called me and told me that he had been 640 terminated. I was asked to come in to talk with the County Commissioners at which time 641 1 asked Mrs. Greene to go into the meeting with me. At that time the Commissioners 642 presented the information they knew concerning the State Board of Accounts 643 investigation. They also specifically told me not to say anything about what was going to 644 happen until the investigation was over. So that's why I haven't been able to say 14