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Livingston Parish finance staff outline January receipts, propose public budget presentations
Summary
Finance staff reviewed January financial statements, noted timing of property-tax receipts, described new ACH vendor payments for large disbursements and said an outside review of controls is in progress. Committee members asked staff to prepare public-facing, fund-by-fund budget presentations for future meetings.
At a Livingston Parish finance committee meeting, Finance staff reviewed the parish's January financial statements, described steps to reduce fraud risk on large payments and outlined plans for more public-facing budget presentations.
Finance staffer Gail Housley Walker said the packet presented to the committee covers the general fund summary, detailed departmental expenditures and remaining budgets for funds including administration, animal control and coroner. Housley Walker said ad valorem (property) tax receipts did not arrive in time for the January statements; the first property-tax check, $5,439,918,…
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