WARREN, Ohio - Mecca Township Trustees will appoint a new Fiscal Officer during a special meeting Friday night. 

The new appointment comes after a Trumbull County judge  ordered the removal of Mecca Township Fiscal Officer Deborah Drawl.

Judge Andrew Logan on Thursday ruled in favor of the Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine and township trustees, who filed a civil suit to remove Drawl who DeWine says failed to properly keep financial accounts and make reports for the township.

Drawl was asked to resign her position last fall but failed to do so.

DeWine's office says that the firm that was consulted to do an audit of the township last February found "numerous" problems including unexplained entries, several large lapses in recording revenues, failures to reconcile the"the books" for several months, and a failure to complete a financial report for 2016.

Last year, the State Auditor's Office declared that Mecca Township was "unauditable."

Drawl was told in May that the Township had 90 days to rectify its financial records.

Judge Logan gave Drawl five days to return all software, computers, supplies, equipment, and records to the township.

He also ordered to not to destroy or harm any township records.

Trustee James Governor said the township material was returned Thursday afternoon, "I asked her if everything was here from her house and she said yes, I asked her if there were any passwords that she had changed that we needed to know and she said all the passwords were her's privately."

Governor said he will leave it up to the State Auditor's Office to determine if those passwords are needed.

 A call to Drawl for comment was not returned.