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Finance committee hears timeline for payroll fixes, audits and back-pay review
Summary
City finance officials reported progress fixing recent payroll errors and outlined audits and reconciliations to determine whether past deductions and retirement contributions were processed correctly and whether employees are owed adjustments.
City of Westfield finance staff told the finance committee on March 24 that they expect near-term fixes to lingering payroll errors and a payroll audit to follow, while a separate review could trace any missing retirement contributions.
The committee heard that Baker Tilly has been working on correcting payroll reporting and that staff aim to complete 401(a) match reports and initial reconciliations by the end of the week. Arla, a Baker Tilly consultant, said, "Baker Tilly has been working, really diligently to ensure that payrolls are accurate, and I think that's really going well." The committee also discussed a separate payroll audit and the possibility of a forensic audit if that review turns up discrepancies requiring deeper investigation.
Committee members and staff described a range of outstanding issues,…
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