Residents say this isn't the first time County Treasurer Kevin Wondra has cost Barton County money. Commissioners asked Wondra to resign two years ago amidst other financial issues but he never left.

Barton County Administrator Richard Beckman said Wondra should have seen the red flags," Nobody called me, the treasurer didn't call, there were no inquiries made, local management controls were all overridden by the treasurer".

This time around, Boeckman said Wondra cost Barton County thousands of dollars after falling for an email scam, "The treasurer had a series of emails that purportedly had come from my cell phone that was telling him that I was directing him to pay $48,600 to a vendor named Global Logistics".

Wondra wired the money, now the county and sheriff's office are working to get it back.

Barton County Sheriff Brian Belendir said that is often difficult to do, "The money crossed the state lines. I have filed the proper paperwork through the FBI".

Boeckman said it is hard to tell what will happen, "Hopefully the bank put this on some kind of hold or hopefully we'll get it back through insurance or we may not get it back at all".

Local resident's like Travis Sinn said Wondra should pay the money back, "He should be personally held responsible for it, period. It'd be no different than me and you working somewhere and writing someone a $48,000 check and signing our name when we were supposed to give it to somebody else".

Boeckman said community members asking for Wondra's dismissal should know the decision is in their hands, "Commissioners cannot fire an elected official, the only people that can fire an elected official are the voters."