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City accepts FY2024 audit; commissioners press for plan on loss-making services

3071281 · April 21, 2025
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Summary

Auditors issued a clean opinion on Fort Pierce’s FY2024 financial report; commissioners used the audit presentation to call for immediate reviews of enterprise funds with persistent operating losses, notably the animal adoption center, marina and solid waste.

The Fort Pierce City Commission accepted the city’s FY2024 comprehensive annual financial report on April 21 after auditors delivered a clean opinion, then several commissioners urged the administration to begin an immediate, detailed review of enterprise funds that are operating at a loss.

Auditor Mark Barnes told the commission the firm issued a clean opinion and reported no findings. “Clean opinion. We had no findings. Staff does a fantastic job,” Barnes said in his summary of the audit. His firm highlighted a stronger balance sheet for the city overall, a decline in long-term debt and an increase in general-government…

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