The boards of the Unified Fire Authority (UFA) and the Unified Fire Service Area (UFSA) punted on the decision of whether to attempt recovering hundreds of thousands of dollars in public funds that state auditors last year concluded were misused by UFA’s top administrators.
A civil lawsuit would likely be the only way to go after that money because a more than yearlong investigation by the Utah Attorney General’s Office, released last week, ended with no criminal charges.
“I think it’s appropriate to say that our board is disappointed that they didn’t feel like it reached that bar” for criminal prosecution, UFA Chairman Robert Dahle said at the boards’ joint meeting on Tuesday.