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New finance director says city accounting needs multi-year corrections; council hears plan to fix reconciliations and taxes
Summary
Monica Hofstadter, Sunnyside’s new finance director, told the City Council that reconciliations for 2023–24 are incomplete, that prior-year transactions were misposted and that some tax filings were late; she outlined a plan to correct 2023 and 2024 before finishing 2025.
Monica Hofstadter, Sunnyside’s newly hired finance director, told the Sunnyside City Council at its study session that reconciliations and accounting entries dating to 2023 and 2024 require correction and prior tax filings had not been completed while a prior employee was on leave.
Hofstadter said she has begun undoing misposted transactions so she can close 2023 and 2024 properly and continue with reconciliations for 2025. “None of it. None of it. None of it's been done,” she said of parts of the prior bookkeeping. She told council that she has caught up January–March 2025 reconciliations and that Springbrook (the city’s accounting software vendor) is assisting with correcting earlier-year entries.
Why it matters: Councilors pressed for details because unresolved reconciliations and late tax filings can affect budgeting, grant compliance and the city’s ability to forecast and…
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