Missouri Auditors to Release Monarch Fire District Findings

Missouri state auditors' staffers are expected to release their audit findings of the Monarch Fire Protection District at a meeting slated tonight at 6 p.m. at Monarch's headquarters building at 13725 Olive Blvd. in Chesterfield.

State Auditor Tom Schweich requested the audit be conducted "due to the serious nature of allegations surrounding the district."

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon on Feb. 24 after some, including Monarch board member Kim Evans, claimed on behalf of the district.

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Fire Marshal Roger Herin said Wednesday's meeting will be operated by the state auditors, and that is not a Monarch board meeting. "They are just using our facilities," he said.

Herin said Monarch Controller Michelle DePew will be present.

A watchdog group, Monarch Concerned Taxpayers, posted on the group's website that they intend to ask the state auditor's office and Monarch representatives for an accounting of tax dollars that were expended to perform this audit, citing that Evans asked for the audit in attempt of influencing last April's election of Monarch board of directors.