Two of the three members of the Story County Board of Supervisors expressed concern about being linked to the mistakes of the Story County auditor. Both Jane Halliburton, chairwoman of the Story County Board of Supervisors, and Fred Mathison, vice chairman for the board, said they were surprised when James Kurtenbach, chairman of the Republicans of Story County, connected the board to the mistakes of Story County Auditor Judy Emmons. “While those two offices (auditor and Board of Supervisors) work together, they are independent offices,” Halliburton said. Mathison agreed that the two offices act independently. “We’re not the watchdog for the auditor’s office,” Mathison said. Kurtenbach wrote a letter to Emmons on Sept. 10 asking for her resignation after a series of costly mistakes. These included redrawing several precinct boundaries, incorrectly assessing railroad property in Nevada, incorrectly reporting tax assessment totals for the Colo-Nesco School District and failing to file a notice of bid for a Story County bond issuance of the jail construction. Kurtenbach said he recognizes that the office of the auditor and the Board of Supervisors are two separate entities, but the point he was trying to make was that if the board had knowledge of any mistakes, they should have disclosed it to the public. “What I’m interested in obtaining is open, honest, uniform, full disclosure of all county operations,” Kurtenbach said. The Story County Board of Supervisors is a three-member board designed to establish policies for the county and construct a county budget. Halliburton said the board frequently interacts with other county officials such as the sheriff, treasurer, auditor and attorney. “I don’t think that [writing a letter requesting resignation] is the avenue I would have taken, but if Mr. Kurtenbach determines that’s the way he wants to do it, that’s his decision to make,” Mathison said.