The committee that fought a proposal to allow alcohol sales in Faulkner County will be issued a public letter of caution by the state Ethics Commission in a settlement of a complaint filed against the committee.
According to commission records released Wednesday, Mary Dillard, chairman of the They Win, You Lose Committee, signed a settlement offer Sunday in which she agreed that the committee violated state law by failing to disclose in a timely manner on its May financial report expenses that it incurred for petition monitors during the month.
Ethics Commission Director Graham Sloan said in his settlement offer to Dillard that evidence gathered during the commission's investigation showed that the committee disclosed the expenses in question when they were paid in June instead of the previous month when they were known or readily ascertainable.
The earliest date that the committee knew about the monitor payments was May 30, which was before the reporting period for the month had closed, Sloan wrote. May 30 was the day the committee electronically received the weekly spreadsheet from a consulting firm that it relied upon to keep track of the payments each monitor was owed, he said.
Alcohol-sales proponent David Couch of Little Rock said he filed the ethics complaint against the They Win, You Lose Committee in June.
Metro on 10/02/2014