Child Support Office Fighting Big Claim
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The state Office of Child Support
Enforcement is fighting a 331 thousand dollar breach-of-contract
judgment.
The money was awarded to a Russellville landlord after the
agency`s local office moved out of his building, claiming something
there made workers sick.
The decision in favor of Keith Cogswell was made by the state
Claims Commission, which concluded that child support officials
offered no evidence to back up their story. The commission ordered
its clerk to submit a bill for the claim to the Legislature.
The state was to have appealed the ruling to the Legislative
Council`s Claims Review Subcommittee today, but the hearing was
postponed indefinitely because only three members of the 16-member
panel attended the meeting -- less than a quorum for conducting
business.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
