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Cleveland Heights councilors and advisor flag audit backlog while discussing 2025 appropriations ordinance
Summary
Council and an external advisor reviewed reconciliation of the 2025 appropriation ordinance, identified data and department coding questions, and heard warnings that the city must file unaudited 2023 financial statements to avoid being classified as unauditable.
Cleveland Heights councilors used the Committee of the Whole meeting March 17 to scrutinize the proposed 2025 appropriation ordinance and hear an external advisor’s review of reconciliations and outstanding audit work.
Frank Dyke, an outside advisor and CPA, told council he had reconciled department‑level operating budget data to the appropriation ordinance and found two items that required clarification: capital work and engineering costs appearing in the Planning, Neighborhoods and Development department rather than Public Works, and a department‑number mismatch (the ordinance showed department 8401 while the administration’s…
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