Davis County Commission approves budget amendment, water-rights filing and multiple contracts; auditors flag internal-control failure for 2024

Davis County commissioners on April 22 unanimously approved a suite of budget, contract and administrative items — including a $4 million building purchase and a water-rights filing — and accepted a county risk assessment that failed a state-auditors internal-control question for the 2024 audit period.

The commission approved a budget amendment that increases Capital Health Fund spending by $4,000,000 to purchase a building identified in the meeting as “Talia Ops” at 22 East 200 South in Clearfield; commissioners also approved an additional $841,300 for completion of an air-wall project at the Davis Conference Center and $17,520 for related annual maintenance. Controller Curtis told commissioners the packet corrects a prior double-entry by reducing expenditures by $361,541.

The risk assessment for the 2024 year drew separate discussion and a separate vote. Controller Curtis said the county failed one high-weight question in the state auditor’s assessment: “are all people who are able to collect cash or check payments different from all the people who are able to adjust customer accounts? The answer to that is no.” The commission approved submitting the assessment…