Three city workers cited in a report by the Alabama Examiners of Public Accounts are expected to meet Tuesday evening in a closed-door session with the Selma City Council.

The workers want to talk about an audit released by the state, which names them as owing about $30,000 for municipal court receipts never deposited, said Mayor George Evans.

Evans told the council of the need for the executive session during a council work session Monday.

“They want to speak to this audit and this involves good name and character,” Evans said.

The Alabama Open Meetings Act allows public bodies to meet behind closed doors for certain reasons, including job performance, general reputation and character, physical condition, professional competence and mental health. The general rule is discussions about an individual’s general reputation and character are subject to executive session for all individuals except when the discussion also concerns the individual’s job performance, such as observed activities on the job of certain high-level public employees and officials.

Lynecia Steele, Zanetta Irby and Laura Stowers were cited in a report released three weeks ago by the state examiners. The three women have denied any responsibility for the misappropriated funds and do not intend to pay back the money.

The report states Irby, an assistant tax collector, owes $5,150; Steele, an accounts clerk at City Hall, owes $14,925.50 and Stowers, the chief magistrate in municipal court owes $9,659.10.

Evans said he has transferred the three women to different jobs within the city, but did not specify what jobs they now held.

Two weeks ago, council president Cecil Williamson asked the city’s attorney to draw up a resolution asking the examiners to audit the municipal court’s books for the last three years.

On Monday, attorney Jimmy Nunn told the council he had contacted the state examiner’s office about the new audit, which would cover Oct. 1, 2005 through Sept. 30, 2008. Nunn said Chief Examiner Ronald L. Jones told him an audit that thorough of the city books would be difficult because of state cuts and lack of funding.

The audit listed 12 findings where the city did not comply with state laws, rules or procedures in handling money for the municipal court system. The city has responded to each of those 12 findings.

The state examiner has turned its findings over to the state attorney general’s office, which has made no comment.