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Richie Farmer's agency says it can't find missing refrigerator
Written by Tom Loftus
FRANKFORT, KY. — After two weeks of searching, the Department of Agriculture has concluded the second of two compact refrigerators it bought last year for Commissioner Richie Farmer’s office is lost.
“We cannot find that refrigerator. It’s not within the area of our campus,” department spokesman Bill Clary said of search efforts at the department’s offices on the outskirts of Frankfort. “We don’t know where it is.”
Asked if the search is over, Clary said, “I don’t know that we’re giving up looking for it. But at this point I don’t think we’ll be using a massive amount of time to continue looking for it.”
An anonymous complaint filed with the Kentucky Personnel Board this summer said that the department had bought a refrigerator and had it delivered to Farmer’s house in Frankfort.
Two weeks ago Clary confirmed that, but said the compact Frigidaire — bought at Lowe’s in February 2010 for $179 — was used in Farmer’s home office where he often did state business. That refrigerator was moved to the department headquarters in May of this year when Farmer moved out of his house after his wife filed for divorce, Clary said.
But department records obtained by The Courier-Journal under the Kentucky Open Records Act show the department purchased two identical refrigerators for the commissioner’s office in 2010. Records show a second refrigerator was purchased in August of 2010.
It’s the second one that has not been located since the newspaper first asked to see it two weeks ago.
Clary said the second refrigerator is not at other department offices in the Capital Plaza Tower. And he said it’s not at Farmer’s new residence.
“It’s not there. I asked the commissioner point blank. He said it’s not there,” Clary said.
Clary said that because each refrigerator cost less than $500, the state Finance Cabinet’s regulations do not not require the department to list and track them in its inventory records.
“The issue we’re going to look at now, from what I understand, is whether or not there needs to be an internal policy beyond that of the Finance Cabinet to keep us from losing things or misplacing them,” Clary said.
Written by Tom Loftus
FRANKFORT, KY. — After two weeks of searching, the Department of Agriculture has concluded the second of two compact refrigerators it bought last year for Commissioner Richie Farmer’s office is lost.
“We cannot find that refrigerator. It’s not within the area of our campus,” department spokesman Bill Clary said of search efforts at the department’s offices on the outskirts of Frankfort. “We don’t know where it is.”
Asked if the search is over, Clary said, “I don’t know that we’re giving up looking for it. But at this point I don’t think we’ll be using a massive amount of time to continue looking for it.”
An anonymous complaint filed with the Kentucky Personnel Board this summer said that the department had bought a refrigerator and had it delivered to Farmer’s house in Frankfort.
Two weeks ago Clary confirmed that, but said the compact Frigidaire — bought at Lowe’s in February 2010 for $179 — was used in Farmer’s home office where he often did state business. That refrigerator was moved to the department headquarters in May of this year when Farmer moved out of his house after his wife filed for divorce, Clary said.
But department records obtained by The Courier-Journal under the Kentucky Open Records Act show the department purchased two identical refrigerators for the commissioner’s office in 2010. Records show a second refrigerator was purchased in August of 2010.
It’s the second one that has not been located since the newspaper first asked to see it two weeks ago.
Clary said the second refrigerator is not at other department offices in the Capital Plaza Tower. And he said it’s not at Farmer’s new residence.
“It’s not there. I asked the commissioner point blank. He said it’s not there,” Clary said.
Clary said that because each refrigerator cost less than $500, the state Finance Cabinet’s regulations do not not require the department to list and track them in its inventory records.
“The issue we’re going to look at now, from what I understand, is whether or not there needs to be an internal policy beyond that of the Finance Cabinet to keep us from losing things or misplacing them,” Clary said.
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