Specifically, the Commission determined that Grenell had purchased various pieces of electronic equipment in an effort to spend down allotted program money. The Commission also determined that Grenell had failed her fiscal-related responsibilities by purchasing items or services the reimbursement for which she should have known the Department would not approve. However, for the fiscal years 2002 through 2003, the County submitted no invoices to the Department. The Commission determined that, although Grenell was not responsible to process invoices to be sent to the Department, she had ultimate responsibility to ensure that invoices were sent to the Department in a timely fashion. In this regard the Department provided Grenell with training sessions that informed attendees regarding the County's responsibilities under the Contact, fiscal organization, directions regarding a County's use of Department-generated promotional items and reports to the Department regarding the details of such use, permissible expenditures, and use of remaining funds at the end of the fiscal year. The Commission determined that Grenell was the County person solely responsible for making determinations as to whether program expenditures were allowed under the Contract and whether Contract-related program purchases were appropriate under the terms of the Contract. In accordance with the provisions of the Contract with the Department, the County entered into a subcontract with Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), pursuant to which, Penn State acted as a service provider to implement anti-tobacco programs. Under the terms of the Contract, the County would develop projects aimed at discouraging the use of tobacco, and the Department would reimburse the County for appropriate and proper costs upon the County's submission of invoices to the Department. 1 The primary responsibility of the person holding this position is to 'direct and coordinate the tobacco projects which included, without limitation, oversight of all the tobacco related programs pursuant to the' contract (Contract) between the County and the Department. Although Grenell began working for Franklin County in 1982 as a Drug and Alcohol Prevention Specialist, in 2002, she applied for and the County appointed her to the position of Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program Supervisor (Tobacco). The pertinent facts, based upon those found by the Commission, are as follows. Accordingly, the Commission directed Employer to reimburse Grenell for wages and emoluments from Jthrough September 27, 2005. The Commission concluded that Employer had established that it had just cause for removing Grenell as Drug and Alcohol Prevention Program Supervisor (Tobacco) (Local Government), but that Employer had failed to provide due process such as to effectuate the removal as of the date of termination through the date of her post-termination hearing. Eileen Grenell petitions for review of an order of the Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission (Commission) that sustained Grenell's dismissal by her former employer, the Franklin/Fulton County Drug and Alcohol Abuse Unit (Employer).

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