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Committee presses building-and-housing collection, corrects consultant coding for Yerkes
Summary
Committee members and residents flagged roughly $76,000 in unpaid rental-permit revenues from 2023-24 and questioned internal coding that placed a Yerkes consulting expense in Public Works; staff said a journal entry to correct coding is under review.
During public comment and committee discussion at the Jan. 8 West Chester Finance Committee meeting, resident Anne Carroll raised concerns about how consultant costs for Yerkes were coded and about unpaid rental-permit revenue. Carroll said she had reviewed staff responses and asked, "Is it did we really do that?" and called misclassification “unauthentic” if left uncorrected.
Barb, a borough staff member, told the committee she had created a journal entry that “is in mister Metric's review file.” Finance Director Sean Metric explained that building and housing had lacked a consultant line item when the Yerkes expense of…
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