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Sumner County audit committee asks finance staff to cost out full consolidation amid 1981/2012 law debate
Summary
The audit committee voted to ask the county finance department and Financial Management Committee to develop a roadmap and cost estimate for consolidating county financial operations, including schools, after extended discussion about whether the county is operating under the 1981 or 2012 financial-management acts.
Sumner County's audit committee voted to ask the finance department to prepare a roadmap and full cost estimate for consolidating the county's financial activities, including school finances, and to ask the Financial Management Committee to take the request up.
The request followed a long discussion about which legal framework governs county financial operations — the Financial Management Act of 1981 or the 2012 alternative — and whether the county has been partially implementing consolidation steps over several prior commissions. Committee members emphasized they want a factual cost estimate before deciding whether to pursue full implementation.
Finance office staff told the committee that the county has not yet completed some year‑end closings and that…
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