Members of Blackstone Town Council reportedly have decided against meeting with former Treasurer Karen Morris, who last month suddenly quit her $65,000-peryear job.
The Town is advertising for its next Treasurer with applications due Friday, March 13th.
Mrs. Morris, who had been on the job since August 2025, wanted to meet privately with Council and share her observations and concerns with local officials. One of those concerns reportedly dealt with an incident involving the handling of cash.
There are reports that some members of Council wanted the Mayor and a senior member of Council to meet privately with Mrs. Morris, but the majority on Council reportedly said that because she quit, they didn’t think a meeting would be appropriate.
Mrs. Morris had won praise for helping the Town select a new accounting software system to replace the Town’s 33-year-old Bright system, and also making large recoveries from past due meals tax accounts without having to take establishments to court.
She’s the second Treasurer to quit in less than a year. Brittany Morgan, who served as Treasurer since 2017, and had been employed with the Town since 2015, gave the Town four weeks’ notice before leaving her $59,488 job last April. Mrs. Morgan was a Certified Master Governmental Treasurer and claimed in her resignation letter that the Town Office was a toxic work environment, and that some elected officials expected and received advance notice that their Town utility accounts were Past Due. She also claimed that at least one elected official demanded to be addressed as “The Honorable” and that another told staffers that “all you white girls look the same.”
Mrs. Morris reportedly didn’t quit for those reasons. Her last day was Feb. 5th and she didn’t submit a resignation letter. In what appears to be a related development, Town Council at its Feb. 22nd meeting agreed to have its Health & Ordinance Committee study the Town’s “cash policies on all sides” of Town Hall. That panel is chaired by At-Large Councilman Chris Page.
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