Columbiana MRDD seeks performance audit

LISBON — The Columbiana County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities will see how it stacks up to similar MRDD boards.

The county MRDD board voted Wednesday to spend $40,000 for a performance audit.

The move came as the county MRDD board voted to remove a 2.5-mill levy from the primary ballot that would have generated $3.3 million a year.

William Devon, the board’s superintendent, took responsibility for the figures that he said showed the need for additional revenue.

The board, however, ended 2007 with $6.3 million — or about half its annual spending.

MRDD also has about $3 million it says is earmarked for care of its clients after their parents pass away.

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