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Councilors flag budget spreadsheet glitches, ask finance director for clarified line items
Summary
Councilors and department heads said exported budget files contained mislabeled accounts and combined salary lines; they asked Finance Director Jeremy Flake to correct the errors before budget adoption.
Several council members and department heads told the Finance and Personnel Committee on Feb. 18 that the budget file circulated by the finance office contained errors and labeling glitches that could obscure appropriation details.
Concerns raised included line items labeled “Swisscom uniforms and others” that several departments said do not correspond to uniforms, and a repeated account description that appears in multiple department budgets though it represents different charges in each fund. Committee…
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