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Ione council holds budget workshop; staff flags accounting cleanup, department variances
Summary
City staff presented a draft fiscal-year 2025–26 budget and three-year actuals, identifying formula errors, misplaced transactions, and accounts that need reclassification. Councilors requested further cleanup before a final adoption and asked department heads to present at a later workshop.
City of Ione staff led a budget workshop Thursday, July 24, reviewing department-level budgets, three years of actuals and revenue-to-budget comparisons, and identifying a number of accounting errors that must be corrected before a final budget is adopted.
Finance staff member Andrea (staff member) opened the discussion with an explanation of the budget accounting format and said she had extracted three-year actuals directly from the city's financial system (Cassell) to avoid manual errors. "I printed out what Cassell prints out is by fund, not by department," Andrea said. She described reassigning items that had been posted to the wrong accounts and correcting formulas in hand-prepared worksheets.
Andrea told the council she had noted formula errors and misplaced transactions across several accounts, and that some items currently recorded as revenue contain expenses that must be moved to expense accounts.…
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