From Jim Wheatley, Presiding Commissioner
I wanted to share with you an email from the Treasury Department in reference to the status of Bates County's compliance with the SLFRF allocations report.
As you can see in the email, it states that the noncompliance has been resolved. This email was sent from the U.S. Department of the Treasury today, 03/11/2025, to the shared Commissioners email address as well as copied to Commissioner Gray'email address.
I would like to address the accusations that I have been "MIA" on this matter. I have spent almost every weekday on this in some capacity since last Monday,e able to read as well. whether it being the evenings inputting data or during the daytime conversing with the Treasury dating Department by phone and shared Commissioner email, which Commissioner Gray and Commissioner Nelson were able to read as well. I am not sure where the misinformation is coming from that "only two Commissioners" have been working on this. As I have said before, I am the only one who is able to log in and input the information because of how it was set up initially and work with the Treasury Department on this. I am not sure exactly what my fellow Commissioners were able to do on this matter other than go around and collect receipts for the money that was spent. The receipts showing how each organization spent the money are not due until December 31st, 2026. To clarify to the Citizens since there is a lot of false information going around, this was only a report showing the "allocation" of the money we received and not how Organizations spent the money yet, as would they still have time to spend the rest of the money they received.
Again, with no "ego" involved, I would like to sincerely apologize to the Citizens of Bates County and would like to thank all of the people that have reached out to me in support.
Sincerely,
Jim Wheatley
Presiding Commissioner
