Are we paying for Marshall's overhead?

Court records show the current Bonner County Prosecuting Attorney Louis Marshall uses his Bonner County office to also perform a private practice with the city of Ponderay.

Court records show he uses the same fax and phone and has a secretary answer his calls. That is all perfectly legal but review of the online Bonner County budget doesn’t show him reimbursing the county or being charged for those overhead services provided by the taxpayer to run his private contract.

1 also can’t find a resolution by the commissioners saying it is OK. If they do OK it, they should make him reimburse the county. Secretary time, paper, fax, copier, phone all add up to a lot of overtime.

Are the taxpayers paying his private overhead and, if so, isn’t that illegal or at least unethical for a elected law enforcement official? It’s not related to why we elected him or what are taxes are designated for in the county budget. What is going at that office? Where are the ethics?

I think maybe it’s time for somebody new.

STEVE CRAIG

Hope