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Morgan County officials complete ClearGov training, agree on bank-interest policy and fund accounting changes
Summary
County commissioners and staff completed a ClearGov training during a Sept. 2 work session and agreed to new bookkeeping practices: distribute bank interest to funds once a year and route certain program revenues and expenses into new funds for clearer accounting.
Morgan County commissioners and staff completed a hands-on ClearGov training during a Sept. 2 budget work session and directed staff to adopt several bookkeeping practices intended to make individual fund balances and program costs easier to track.
The training, led by county staff, showed commissioners how to drill into fund balances, review worksheets for FY25 actuals and FY26 requests, and attach documentation to specific line items in ClearGov. "The beauty of ClearGov is when we've gone in before, you've kind of gone in blind because you had no idea what was in the fund balance of all of these funds," one trainer said, demonstrating a dashboard view of fund-level revenues and expenditures.
Why it matters: Commissioners said that clearer fund accounting will let them match revenue and expenses to the funds that actually carry them — a change that could alter how the county budgets for parks, airport operations and other enterprise-style activities.
What the county agreed…
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