Spryn asked to stay on during department’s transition
NORWICH – Two employee departures in the county’s mental health department have resulted in lawmakers asking one to stay on board longer in order to transition new personnel.
Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Director Mary Ann Spryn will officially retire Feb. 27 after 21 years on the job. She accepted an offer last week, however, to stay on through mid-March. The unexpected departure of her administrative officer, Tom Crounse, precipitated the county’s move.
“We lost her financial officer. There will be two new people. We have to help these two people get started,” said Personnel Committee Chairman Wayne Outwater, R-Lincklaen.
Crounse has assisted Spryn for the past 8 1/2 years in overseeing the department’s budgets for mental health, alcohol and drug, and intensive case management services. The three budgets combined total in excess of $5 million.
Outwater said a candidate had been hired to replace Spryn and two candidates were being interviewed for Crounse’s job. Though salary amounts were not mentioned, Outwater said Spryn’s replacement would be paid less than her 2010 salary of $91,864, and the difference would be her consultant’s stipend.
During a meeting of the county’s Finance Committee last Thursday, Vice Chairman Dennis Brown, D-Pharsalia, asked whether the Health and Human Services Committee had considered combining Crounse’s duties with that of another department’s administrative officer. That committee’s Chairman, Jeffrey Blanchard, R-Pitcher, said an interdepartmental review determined that the position was “too big” and the mental health department “needed to have a stand alone person.”
Earlier last week, Health and Human Services Committee member James Bays, D-Smyrna, opposed a motion to refill Crounse’s position, calling for lawmakers to first ask Spryn to stay on to transition his replacement.
“We have a very tenured administrator taking off and the fiscal person already gone,” he said.
Bays said he was satisfied that such a conversation had later ensued.
In other news, the results of a New York State Department of Health audit of mental health services conducted last year have not yet been released. The audit was completed in October. Spryn said the state’s Medicaid Inspector General was currently investigating counties throughout New York, and has been “really burdening” them, “hitting them with paybacks of major thousands of dollars.”
“It’s really technical issues that they are looking for, not fraudulent. Just things that weren’t documented correctly,” she said.
Blanchard said he was “concerned” that the audit’s results would come while the department was in transition.
Chenango County Mental Hygiene Services Director Mary Ann Spryn will officially retire Feb. 27 after 21 years on the job. She accepted an offer last week, however, to stay on through mid-March. The unexpected departure of her administrative officer, Tom Crounse, precipitated the county’s move.
“We lost her financial officer. There will be two new people. We have to help these two people get started,” said Personnel Committee Chairman Wayne Outwater, R-Lincklaen.
Crounse has assisted Spryn for the past 8 1/2 years in overseeing the department’s budgets for mental health, alcohol and drug, and intensive case management services. The three budgets combined total in excess of $5 million.
Outwater said a candidate had been hired to replace Spryn and two candidates were being interviewed for Crounse’s job. Though salary amounts were not mentioned, Outwater said Spryn’s replacement would be paid less than her 2010 salary of $91,864, and the difference would be her consultant’s stipend.
During a meeting of the county’s Finance Committee last Thursday, Vice Chairman Dennis Brown, D-Pharsalia, asked whether the Health and Human Services Committee had considered combining Crounse’s duties with that of another department’s administrative officer. That committee’s Chairman, Jeffrey Blanchard, R-Pitcher, said an interdepartmental review determined that the position was “too big” and the mental health department “needed to have a stand alone person.”
Earlier last week, Health and Human Services Committee member James Bays, D-Smyrna, opposed a motion to refill Crounse’s position, calling for lawmakers to first ask Spryn to stay on to transition his replacement.
“We have a very tenured administrator taking off and the fiscal person already gone,” he said.
Bays said he was satisfied that such a conversation had later ensued.
In other news, the results of a New York State Department of Health audit of mental health services conducted last year have not yet been released. The audit was completed in October. Spryn said the state’s Medicaid Inspector General was currently investigating counties throughout New York, and has been “really burdening” them, “hitting them with paybacks of major thousands of dollars.”
“It’s really technical issues that they are looking for, not fraudulent. Just things that weren’t documented correctly,” she said.
Blanchard said he was “concerned” that the audit’s results would come while the department was in transition.
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