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In this screenshot taken from the Utah County Government’s YouTube channel, Utah County Clerk/Auditor Amelia Powers Gardner, inset, urges Utah County commissioners Bill Lee and Tom Sakievich not to vote to move budget oversight out of her office, blasting them for proposing such a “major” structural change with barely 24 hours notice. The commissioners voted soon after to approve the change in the public meeting on Wednesday, March 31, 2021.
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High-ranking state officials as well as local leaders from Utah County are seething at a Wednesday vote by county commissioners to sweep budget oversight away from the county’s independently elected clerk/auditor and place it solely under the commission.