SANFORD - What's described as a fact-finding huddle on Wednesday at 4 p.m. may become the most significant meeting held by County's Charter Review Commission.

The topic: who's running or should be running the finances of the Board of County Commissioners.

There are three primary guests:

• Martha Haynie, Orange County Comptroller.
• Maryanne Morse, Seminole County Clerk of the Court and Clerk to the BCC.
• Carlton Henley, Chairman of the Board of Seminole County Commissioners.

Haynie will talk about what her duties are as Florida's only county comptroller. Several members of the Seminole Charter Review Commission have expressed interest in making Seminole the second Florida county with a comptroller.

Morse, Florida's lone constitutional officer to serve as clerk for the courts and the board of commissioners, will have the opportunity to tell the Charter Review members why Seminole's system works and why it would be foolist to change the way it works.

Henley will present proof that there are "systematic" problems that should have been addressed years ago - that a finance officer in the county manager's office ought to be dealing with BCC finances.

Henley said Monday he was opposed to the county going to a comptroller system such as Orange County has.

"We needn't go that far," he said.

Morse, who is running for re-election in 2000, has ruffled more than a few feathers in the past 12 years. In addition to her well-publicized tug of war with County Commissioner Dick Van Der Weide over travel and meal expenses for an overseas junket, Morse has had other finance-related scraps with the BCC.

It irritates a number of department head that Morse has an independent computer system, causing delays and inconveniences to them.

"This is not a problem anyone has with Maryanne Morse," Henley insists. "There's a systematic problem that existed before Maryanne Morse came to the county. And it's more than a computer problem. The Charter Review Commission wants to know if there is a better way for the county to operate. I've been asked to share my thoughts."

Morse said she is prepared to supply the facts for the fact-finding mission. "Changing what we're doing isn't something to do on a whim," she said. "The system is working."

SANFORD - What's described as a fact-finding huddle on Wednesday at 4 p.m. may become the most significant meeting held by County's Charter Review Commission.

The topic: who's running or should be running the finances of the Board of County Commissioners.

There are three primary guests:

• Martha Haynie, Orange County Comptroller.
• Maryanne Morse, Seminole County Clerk of the Court and Clerk to the BCC.
• Carlton Henley, Chairman of the Board of Seminole County Commissioners.

Haynie will talk about what her duties are as Florida's only county comptroller. Several members of the Seminole Charter Review Commission have expressed interest in making Seminole the second Florida county with a comptroller.

Morse, Florida's lone constitutional officer to serve as clerk for the courts and the board of commissioners, will have the opportunity to tell the Charter Review members why Seminole's system works and why it would be foolist to change the way it works.

Henley will present proof that there are "systematic" problems that should have been addressed years ago - that a finance officer in the county manager's office ought to be dealing with BCC finances.

Henley said Monday he was opposed to the county going to a comptroller system such as Orange County has.

"We needn't go that far," he said.

Morse, who is running for re-election in 2000, has ruffled more than a few feathers in the past 12 years. In addition to her well-publicized tug of war with County Commissioner Dick Van Der Weide over travel and meal expenses for an overseas junket, Morse has had other finance-related scraps with the BCC.

It irritates a number of department head that Morse has an independent computer system, causing delays and inconveniences to them.

"This is not a problem anyone has with Maryanne Morse," Henley insists. "There's a systematic problem that existed before Maryanne Morse came to the county. And it's more than a computer problem. The Charter Review Commission wants to know if there is a better way for the county to operate. I've been asked to share my thoughts."

Morse said she is prepared to supply the facts for the fact-finding mission. "Changing what we're doing isn't something to do on a whim," she said. "The system is working."