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County audit gets clean opinion; committee hears plan to fix tax-deed documentation and notes fiscal forecast shifts
Summary
Auditors issued a clean opinion on Kenosha County’s 2024 financial statements, and county staff briefed the Finance & Administration Committee on a management order affecting kinship-care and tax-deed documentation and on a year-to-date fiscal forecast.
Kenosha County officials received a clean audit opinion for the 2024 financial statements and an update on year-to-date finances and implementation issues.
Maureen Peterson, representing the county’s auditors, presented the audited financial statements and said the firm issued a clean opinion. The audit narrative reviewed government-wide statements, fund comparisons between 2023 and 2024, capital-asset schedules, long-term liabilities and standard footnotes including pension and other post-employment benefit (OPEB) disclosures. Peterson said the general fund ended the year with about $34 million in total fund balance, including $26.3 million unassigned, and that the county’s unassigned fund balance as a percentage of expenditures was 29.72% (the committee’s 30%…
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