To answer your questions, Thomas, about five years ago bond coverage of around a half-million ran just over $100 annually. Since the common practice in the field is to solicit candidates' credit reports before hiring, then act to bond the new employee immediately after hiring, I wouldn't think someone with bad credit would even be hired. Your question, then, about the increased cost of bonding someone with bad credit is really moot!

Actually, in the workplace, insurance coverage of this sort isn't sought for policymakers so much as it is for folks whose involvement with finance is more hands-on.

It isn't the insurance coverage per se that I believe should be applicable, just some sort of investigative process at the front end.

I wonder, since we are a home rule county, if KC could amend the charter to make the qualification process for candidates more rigorous than that required by state law *and* to create a qualification process for appointees? If so, it would also be necessary to rewrite those horribly vague state statutes to more clearly afford MacKay the authority to qualify candidates...

Have you noticed how every "fix" we seem to consider in these conversations seems to require the cooperation and support of a great many people beyond just the voters...