Ada —
Missing funds totaling about $1,000 in cash have led to the mayor’s resignation, prompted banks to stop payment on checks written to the city’s water department and may launch a police investigation.
Former Roff Mayor Todd McCaskill said a recent missing deposit for water bills led to his resignation as mayor.
“The council doesn’t want to do anything about it,” McCaskill alleged. “I’m not getting any help. I’m not getting anybody trying to make things right, so I quit as mayor.”
He is still a member of the council.
McCaskill said Town Secretary Connie Hilburn told councilors she deposited checks, cash and money orders for water bills at Oklahoma Heritage Bank’s Roff branch Aug. 1 but did not obtain a receipt.
McCaskill said the bank has no record of the deposit and residents who paid their water bills were asked to pay again. The Ada News sources said the alleged deposit totaled about $2,000; half were checks and the other half was cash. No city official would comment on the amount of money missing.
“Oklahoma Heritage Bank is saying it never received (the deposit),” McCaskill said. “(Hillburn) said she never got a receipt so the cash and all the checks are missing.”
He said this isn’t the first time money has gone missing in Roff. The former mayor may be referring to an undetermined amount of money allegedly missing from the parks committee in 2010. Donations to the committee were allegedly made yet were never accounted for. However, city officials said the allegations were baseless and it was impossible to determine if the alleged donations were ever made.
Hilburn declined to comment on the most recent incident when contacted by The Ada News.
Oklahoma Heritage Bank President and CEO Grant Ward said Roff branch employees have agreed to take a lie detector test regarding the incident.
Current Roff Mayor Brent Crawford said the city has made internal control changes to ensure such an incident does not occur again. He said the deposits were entered into the city’s payment system and residents who wrote checks have been identified.
“We’ve contacted the banks (of residents who wrote checks),” Crawford said. “The banks have stopped payment on the checks at no cost to the customers. We have sent out a letter asking (residents) to reissue checks for the amount of those bills.”
He said the Roff Police Department is currently investigating the matter.
Roff Police Chief Glenn Bohannon said he is waiting for further direction from council before opening an investigation.
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