Sedgwick County commissioners are pressing forward with an investigation of their own conduct in office, despite a dispute over the validity of an outside counsel’s investigation of the county manager that was supposed to come first.
Commission Chairman David Dennis said Wednesday that he’s ready to move forward with a probe examining commissioners’ actions and whether they’ve contributed to low morale and an exodus of top county employees.
Commissioners originally agreed to do that on Oct. 24, but put it on hold until after they got a report on County Manager Michael Scholes. The county-ordered investigations are in addition to a separate probe by the FBI into whether the effort to fire Scholes may have been motivated in part by his cooperation with FBI agents investigating O’Donnell last year. At Wednesday’s commission meeting, Dennis declared the investigation of county management complete and said it’s now time to move on to the investigation of the commissioners themselves.
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