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On the same day the public was to weigh in on the county treasurer debate, 49 News obtained exclusive documents about outstanding checks "laying around" Treasurer Larry Wilson's office.

Financial Administrator, Marti Leisinger said "like five pages long of hundreds of checks are just sitting down there".

That means what 49 News has gathered could just be the tip of the iceberg. 49 News received a list of 22 checks totaling $112,000. All of them being N.R.A checks, which are for a "Neighborhood Revitalization Program", Leisinger says the money acts as a rebate to people who have fixed up their homes in targeted neighborhoods in the city.

Leisinger says "it's a tax refund that these people should be getting and they are not getting it because the checks have been returned in the mail and the treasurer is doing nothing to find the rightful owners of this money".

In addition, another 8 checks totaling just over $62,000 are unaccounted for and have never been cashed.

Leisinger stated this afternoon "these people are paying taxes! This is a refund of their taxes! They are managing to get their money to our treasurer, why can't our treasurer get their money back to them?

That brings us to the public hearing, where commissioners were supposed to hear from residents about putting a measure on next years ballot that could make the County Treasurers office an appointed position, rather than an elected one as it is now. The commission chamber was filled with people. The only problem was, the vast majority weren't from Shawnee County. 26 elected officials from around the state showed up at the meeting in support of Wilson.

Vic Miller had this to say "I am curious at how many of those 26 elected officials from parts of the state, that this proposition has nothing to do with, how many of them drove to Topeka on the tax payers dime?".

As for Treasurer Wilson, does he think Commissioner Miller will continue his quest to put the initiative on next years ballot?

Treasurer Larry Wilson "now you want to have the surprise of the year- that would be if he saw the light and voted it down"