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Residents press Walker County on SPLOST accounting and finances; chairwoman pledges quarterly public reports
Summary
Citizens pressed the Walker County Board of Commissioners about SPLOST accounting, annual audits and overall county finances. Chairwoman Angela Teams said she will provide quarterly public financial updates and that the county is conducting internal reconciliations.
LAFAYETTE, Ga. — Residents pressed Walker County leaders on Friday about the status of Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) funds, the county’s debt and the timing of annual audits; the county chairwoman said she will begin issuing quarterly public financial reports.
At a packed public-comment session, Melissa Hulsey, a resident who spoke during the meeting’s public hearing and again during the public-comment period, raised audit findings in the 2022 and 2023 county audits that said the county had recorded amounts due to the SPLOST fund and intended to reimburse the fund from the general fund. Hulsey asked whether the SPLOST account has been reconciled and whether the county should delay planned SPLOST expenditures until the accounting is clear.
Chairwoman Angela Teams responded that she has asked the county chief financial officer to run an internal reconciliation and that she planned to begin sharing quarterly financial reports with the public. “On a quarterly basis, to share with the public what our finances are,” Teams…
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