Conroe, January 10 – In an anti-citizen power play in front of several others loitering about, corrupt Precinct 4 Montgomery County Commissioner James Metts and his Operations Manager Phyllis Martin, whom the Board of District Judges terminated as Montgomery County Auditor effective December 31, 2018, marched into Montgomery County Judge Mark Keough’s office around 8:30 […]
Image: Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin whom the Board of District Judges has terminated as of December 31, 2018. Martin has bragged to several employees of the Montgomery County government that she’ll be going to work for incoming Precinct 4 County Commissioner James Metts who will take office on January 1, 2019. Conroe and New […]
Conroe, November 11 – It would be bizarre if the website showing the members of the Montgomery County Commissioners Court included County Auditor Phyllis Martin or low-level secretary Sylvia Olszowy at the top. Martin and Olszowy are an unelected employees. Martin works for the Board of District Judges. Olszowy works for the citizens who are […]
Conroe, October 8 – Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin, the entire Montgomery County Commissioners Court, and Budget Office Director Amanda Carter intend to break Texas law flagrantly at the Commissioners Court meeting on October 9, 2018, by making at least thirty-nine (39) “budget amendments” as “emergency expenditures” “in case of grave public necessity” when, in […]
Montgomery County, September 14 – “It’s Hammer Time,” the popular Facebook Live/YouTube show on MCP.TV, will air live today, Friday, September 14, 2018, beginning at 11:45 a.m. from the Montgomery County Courthouse where the Board of District Judges will meet to discuss whether to re-appoint Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin to another 2-year term and […]
BREAKING NEWS! Conroe, September 14 – The Golden Hammer has obtained County Auditor Phyllis Martin’s secret budget request to the Board of District Judges which she presented to them on Monday, September 10, 2018. Martin’s secret budget request raises troubling questions about her job performance and her independence as an auditor. Martin provided a 9-page submittal […]
Conroe, September 10 – The citizens of Montgomery County had the opportunity to witness first-hand in open view one of the fundamental problems with the manner in which Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin does her job during the August 28, 2018, meeting of the Commissioners Court. Rather than staying outside of County politics, policy, and […]
Image: Precinct 3 Montgomery County Commissioner James Noack urged the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to reduce the County Auditor’s Budget by the amount of money set aside for the Budget Office, which took away some of the County Auditor’s functions. The Auditor, Phyllis Martin, fought against reducing the bureaucracy of her department. Noack’s motion passed […]
Conroe, September 2 – 221st District Judge Lisa Michalk harshly criticized Montgomery County Auditor Phyllis Martin for Martin’s failure to disclose to and communicate with the Board of District Judges about the $14.85 million Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) software Martin has pushed the taxpayers to purchase. Despite not reviewing any contract, any specifications or terms […]
Image: Montgomery County Treasurer Stephanne Davenport (left), on her way out as Treasurer on December 31, 2018, much to relief of the taxpayers, and County Auditor Phyllis Martin (right), possibly also on her way out, begged the Montgomery County Commissioners Court to spend $14.9 million more on the Enterprise Resource Planning software which confers no […]
