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Bay County auditors issue clean opinion on 2024 financial statements

5402596 · July 16, 2025
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Summary

Independent auditors presented Bay County's 2024 audit, reporting an unmodified (clean) opinion, steady fund balances and pension overfunding; commissioners voted to receive the report.

Doug Dieter, the principal in charge of Raymond's audit engagement, told the Bay County Board of Commissioners on July 15 that the firm issued an unmodified opinion on the county's 2024 financial statements.

Dieter said the county's general fund reported total assets of about $30,556,000, led by roughly $20.6 million in cash and investments, and a year-end fund balance of $23.5 million. He told commissioners property tax receipts increased versus budget and that total county revenues were about $45.2 million for 2024. "We issued what's called an…

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