The Hennessey town board meeting story in the Wednesday, March 19, edition incorrectly stated that Town Administrator Tiffany Rowen learned that the town’s forensic audit was 70% complete after she’d contacted State Rep. Mike Dobrinski for information.

The KT&FP’s recording of the March 11 meeting shows that the town administrator said: “Our audit was pretty well...I mean we’ve heard that it’s 70% done. It was pretty much done.”

“Where did you hear that from, Tiffany?” she was asked by Trustee David Jones.

“It was the state representative that got hold of the state auditor,” she said.

“Oh, okay,” Jones said. “Very good.”

“So I’ve been trying to speed up that (report) with the election going on because I know,” said the administrator, “I know that has a lot of people...” she said, “but I just wanted you to be aware of how much we’ve spent ($25,100 on the audit) and actually they did the audit in about fourand- a half months.”

“You said 70%?” asked the KT&FP reporter from the audience.

“That’s just what the state auditor told the state senator (Chuck Hall),” the town administrator said.

The KT&FP confirmed this week with Dobrinski, R-Okeene, that he had not talked with the town administrator, but he had been asked by Bert Gritz (a town trustee) and Tim Riddle (a town board candidate) during a January event if he’d check on the progress of the audit.

Dobrinski also confirmed in a Wednesday afternoon (March 19) phone conver- sation that he’d called State Auditor and Inspector Cindy Byrd and she gave him that information. He then passed that information on to Gritz and Riddle, he said.

State Senator Chuck Hall also confirmed to the KT&FP he was contacted by Gritz and Riddle at that same January event.

He, too, contacted Byrd, and was told it was 70% complete.

The senator also told the KT&FP Thursday (March 20) that Byrd said the audit would not be completed before the April 1 Hennessey town election. He also told Gritz and Riddle about those findings, he said.

The KT&FP reporter received a call-back from Andrew Speno with the State Auditor and Inspector’s Office this week wanting to know who from their office gave that information to Rep. Dobrinski.

Speno was notified Wednesday afternoon that it was the state auditor and inspector.