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County audit flags repeated deficiencies in sheriff's office; subpoena seeks records tied to Mills Gas and Diesel
Summary
Independent auditors gave Suwannee County a clean opinion on its 2023–24 financial statements but identified eight findings, including repeated weaknesses in the sheriff's office. Separately, county attorney told the board a subpoena seeks county records related to Mills Gas and Diesel after a search warrant was executed there.
Brad Hupp of Powell & Jones presented Suwannee County's fiscal year 2023–24 audit to the Suwannee County Board of County Commissioners on Oct. 21, saying the firm's opinion was that the county's financial statements "do present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the county as of year end Sept. 30, 2024." Hupp also outlined eight audit findings and six recommendations that the county must address.
The auditors listed eight findings, several of which repeated from prior years. They include accounting-software configuration problems, inadequate segregation of duties in the sheriff's office, an out-of-date capital-assets listing, incomplete budgets for some funds, untimely bank reconciliations, potential credit-card misuse, accounting inaccuracies, and weaknesses in grant management and oversight. Hupp described the potential credit-card matter as one that had been turned over…
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