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Board approves amendment removing Avenal Transportation Development Act audit from county contract
Summary
The board approved an amendment excluding the City of Avenal's Transportation Development Act (TDA) audits from the county's Baker Tilly audit contract; county staff said Avenal has not completed required financial statements for fiscal years 2022–23 and 2023–24.
The Kings County Board of Supervisors approved an amendment on Sept. 30 to the county’s audit agreement with Baker Tilly (formerly Moss Adams) to exclude Transportation Development Act (TDA) audits for the City of Avenal.
Rob Knudson, assistant finance director, told the board the county’s contract with Baker Tilly had covered annual financial-statement audits and TDA audits for the county and incorporated cities through fiscal year 2022–23. Baker Tilly was unable to complete Avenal’s TDA audits because the city’s own financial-statement audits for fiscal years 2022–23 and 2023–24 are not complete. Knudson said the Kings County Department of Finance has contracted Price Page (Price Page & Company) for county audits for the next three years and that the Kings County Association of Governments is preparing a separate request-for-proposals for TDA audits.
Knudson asked the board to approve the first amendment to agreement number 023-109 to remove the City of Avenal’s TDA audits from the Baker Tilly scope. The board approved the amendment on roll call.
City manager Anthony Lopez, who addressed the board, said Avenal contracted Price Page in July and expects to have financial statements current to 2024 by December. Lopez told the board the city was already working on 2022 and 2023 records and expected the outstanding audits to be completed by the end of the year. He also said approximately three years of Local Transportation Funds (LTF) have been held while the city comes into compliance, a sum he said was roughly a million dollars.
Knudson said the county has held TDA/LTF funds for Avenal and cannot disburse them until the city becomes compliant with audit requirements. The action will permit a new audit vendor to be tasked with the TDA reviews once Avenal’s financial statements are available.
Ending: The county’s audit contract will proceed without Avenal’s TDA audits; KCAG will prepare an RFP to include Avenal’s TDA audits once the city’s financial statements are filed and a firm is selected.
