MONROE - The Green County Board of Supervisors learned at its meeting Tuesday that former Pleasant View Nursing Home Administrator Don Stoor failed to pay about $55,000 in rent over the past 11 years.
Stoor rented half of a duplex located at the nursing home. His monthly rent for the home was $400.
Stoor died Dec. 4 after battling cancer. His wife died Jan. 8 after a long illness. She was a patient at Pleasant View for several years.
Their recent deaths made the board's discussion about the failure to pay rent uncomfortable for chairman Art Carter.
"This isn't something we wanted to talk about, but we didn't have a choice," Carter said.
The county could try to sue Stoor's estate for the money, Green County Corporation Counsel Brian Bucholtz said.
The county will have to wait until Stoor's will is filed, he said. The Pleasant View Nursing Home Committee will have to make the final decision about a lawsuit, Bucholtz said. The committee's decision could be made within the next few weeks.
The board learned in October that Stoor had failed to make the rent payments. According to Bucholtz, Stoor was supposed to include his rent as revenue in the Pleasant View Nursing Home budget. Stoor failed to enter the amount in the budget and the nursing home oversight committee in the past had failed to notice the discrepancy. After the first year, the matter was never considered by the committee.
Board member Timothy Davis, who was elected to the board in 2006 and serves on the Pleasant View Committee, said Stoor told him that he wasn't expected to pay rent.
Board member Jerry Guth, who does not serve on the Pleasant View Committee, said it would have been difficult for the oversight committee at the time to notice about $5,000 missing from a budget of several million dollars.
Bucholtz said he made an attempt in October and November to try to solve the problem by requesting Stoor take out a life insurance policy that would enable the county to recover about $46,000.
Stoor died before the issue could be resolved.
"We were taken aback when we found out what was going on," Carter said. "We probably should have been aware of this years before."
Stoor rented half of a duplex located at the nursing home. His monthly rent for the home was $400.
Stoor died Dec. 4 after battling cancer. His wife died Jan. 8 after a long illness. She was a patient at Pleasant View for several years.
Their recent deaths made the board's discussion about the failure to pay rent uncomfortable for chairman Art Carter.
"This isn't something we wanted to talk about, but we didn't have a choice," Carter said.
The county could try to sue Stoor's estate for the money, Green County Corporation Counsel Brian Bucholtz said.
The county will have to wait until Stoor's will is filed, he said. The Pleasant View Nursing Home Committee will have to make the final decision about a lawsuit, Bucholtz said. The committee's decision could be made within the next few weeks.
The board learned in October that Stoor had failed to make the rent payments. According to Bucholtz, Stoor was supposed to include his rent as revenue in the Pleasant View Nursing Home budget. Stoor failed to enter the amount in the budget and the nursing home oversight committee in the past had failed to notice the discrepancy. After the first year, the matter was never considered by the committee.
Board member Timothy Davis, who was elected to the board in 2006 and serves on the Pleasant View Committee, said Stoor told him that he wasn't expected to pay rent.
Board member Jerry Guth, who does not serve on the Pleasant View Committee, said it would have been difficult for the oversight committee at the time to notice about $5,000 missing from a budget of several million dollars.
Bucholtz said he made an attempt in October and November to try to solve the problem by requesting Stoor take out a life insurance policy that would enable the county to recover about $46,000.
Stoor died before the issue could be resolved.
"We were taken aback when we found out what was going on," Carter said. "We probably should have been aware of this years before."