Wade makes a big error and local bartender?

Probably wishes she wasn't interviewed...


County Treasurer Wade Kapsukiewicz acknowledged yesterday that the 140,000 property tax bills for the first half of 2005 sent out late last week incorrectly indicated that penalty and interest would be charged for payments made after July 31, 2005.

"It was a mistake. I apologize. It won't happen again," Mr. Kapszukiewicz told the newspaper after learning of the error. "But 95.5 percent of information on the bill was correct including the amounts and the day it is due."

Looking back on some of the promises Wade made:

"I campaigned last year on a platform of change. The voters responded to that message," he said. "From a human standpoint, I certainly don't enjoy having to tell someone that they don't have a future in our office. That's very difficult. However, I take very seriously the promise I made to the voters, to bring in new ideas, new faces.

"I'm continuing to think about the big-picture changes I want to make in the office - doing a better job collecting delinquent taxes so we can ease the burden on honest taxpayers and still get resources the schools and the zoo and the metroparks need," Mr. Kapszukiewicz said.

Granted given the choice was between Wade and Betty Shultz it's not surprising Wade won. However mistakes like this one create the impression that rather than focusing so much on who to fire? Wade might have spent a little more time on having someone proofread the tax bill....

We then discover at least some Toledo Police must read the Toledo Blade, Christine Rutkowski discovered that one the hard way. After appearing in a Toledo Blade article about working as a bartender on New Year's Eve she was arrested for 21 outstanding misdeameanor bench warrants. (Note to others...think twice about being interviewed for the paper if you have that many old bench warrants floating about.)