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Hoover council adopts purchasing and travel policies amid calls for state audit
Summary
Council approved a new purchasing policy and a travel-reimbursement policy that finance staff said memorialize existing controls. Public commenters urged the council to request an audit by the state Examiners of Public Accounts and raised concerns about prior missing documentation.
The Hoover City Council on July adopted a purchasing policy and procedures manual and an employee travel reimbursement policy intended to memorialize existing procurement controls, while members of the public urged a separate state audit into prior financial practices.
Jennifer Cornett, the city's finance official, told the council the purchasing manual documents existing approval chains and required backup documentation for requisitions, credit-card charges and other expenditures. "Every purchase that is made, there is a requisition and approval process to document that those were approved expenditures," Cornett said. She described multi-level approval chains in the accounting system and said…
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