ALAN MCVEY APPOINTED AS OCSE ADMINISTRATOR

ALAN KEITH MCVEY 

Alan K. McVey took over as the OCSE Administrator, a.k.a. Director, on April, 24, 2015 with a salary of $106,942.99.

McVey grew up in Des Arc and after graduating from UALR with a degree in Political Science, he went to work for his dad's timber business.  McVey left the family business to became a loan officer at the Des Arc branch of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Stuttgart.

In 1996 McVey joined the staff of Gov. Mike Huckabee as a policy advisor. In 1998 he was appointed as the deputy director for the Arkansas Department of Economic Development. McVey trudged along at ADED until September 2006 when he accepted a position as executive director of the Delta Center for Economic Development at Arkansas State University.

McVey left employment at ASU in February 2015 under mysterious circumstances.

McVey, as the old folks in Des Arc say, was left without a pot to piss in, and needed to find a job. When all hope was lost, providence provided a position.
Well, at least an old friend did.

MCVEY LET HIS FACEBOOK FRIENDS KNOW OF HIS GOOD FORTUNE

CLICK TO LISTEN TO SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW

The old friend that bailed McVey out was none other than his former boss at the ADED, now the Director of the Arkansas Department of Finance & Administration, Larry Walther.

LARRY WALTHER - DFA DIRECTOR

You might be thinking what experience and or knowledge does McVey have of the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement. Our guess is none, unless he picked up one of the brochures at the front desk when he came to check out his new office in downtown Little Rock...

Nothing in his past had anything to do with the child support system in Arkansas or elsewhere (unless he was an absent parent and paid child support).

McVey's appointment is another fine example of Gov. Hutchinson putting friends and supporters on the public payroll. Check out another blog we have about another DFA office that has some other examples of cronyism.

CLICK HERE FOR - Bad Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control Division

Maybe Walther is going to use McVey to clear house at OCSE like McVey did at ADEA...

CLICK FOR MCVEY'S FACEBOOK PAGE

CLICK FOR MCVEY'S TWITTER FEED

DAN MCDONALD RESIGNS POSITION

MCDONALD LIVING OUT LIFE-LONG DREAM OF MEETING MINNIE MOUSE

CLICK FOR DAN'S FAV TUNE

Dan McDonald has bid adieu to the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement.

We don't know the exact circumstances of his departure (was he allowed to resign in lieu of being fired, or replaced by the new administration) and are not likely to find them out from the Department of Finance & Administration.

What is known for sure is that he was removed from the DFA email server on March 28, 2015.

Kay Demailly, the former Assistant Administrator and General Counsel was named as his interim replacement.

OCSE DIRECTOR DAN MCDONALD'S CELLPHONE RECORDS OBTAINED

In response to a Freedom of Information Act request, we were able to obtain the records of the state issued cellphone of OCSE Director Dan McDonald.

A review of the documents reveals that McDonald likes to send a lot of text and video/photo messages. McDonald also appears to like to surf the web via his state issued phone, especially late in the evening.


Click to view McDonald's cellphone records

OCSE TELLS NON-CUSTODIAL PARENT THEY WILL CLOSE HIS ENFORCEMENT CASE IF HE DOES NOT ATTEND HEARING.

A Non-custodial parent received a crazy, confusing letter from the Arkansas Office of Child Support Enforcement that advises him that if he does not attend an upcoming hearing, his child support case will be closed. This would appear to be great news for all non-custodial parents.  If you want to have the OCSE close your case and get rid of them, simply avoid going to hearings.

Apparently the OCSE sent the non-custodial parent the letter the custodial parent should receive.

This is another example of why drastic changes need to be made at the OCSE starting with the director.

Click to view letter