Palouse mayor logs city calls on WSU clock

Palouse Mayor Michael Echanove has spent too much time on personal business at his job at WSU, according to an internal WSU audit report released Dec. 11.

The audit was prompted after Palouse resident Steve McGehee complained to WSU auditors that Echanove was using his work time at WSU to attend to tasks related to his service as Palouse mayor and other public positions.

As far as discipline is concerned, the auditors suggested Echanove undergo some state ethics training, as well as “personnel actions appropriate to the violations and conditions noted,” to Echanove’s supervisor’s in the office...