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Pendergrass council schedules Nov. 18 budget hearing after bank account breach; discusses fuel cards and purchasing controls
Summary
At the Oct. 28 meeting the council voted to move its regular meeting dates, heard that a bank alerted the city to attempted fraudulent check cashing and discussed fuel-card usage, a merchant account at North Jackson Food Mart and implementing purchasing controls including p-cards and WEX fuel cards.
The Pendergrass City Council on Oct. 28 voted to move its regular November meeting to Nov. 18 and its December meeting to Dec. 30, and council members discussed a recent bank alert about attempted fraudulent use of city check numbers and a range of purchasing controls for city departments.
The mayor told the council that the bank notified the city after someone attempted to cash checks and that about $25,000 in checks were identified by the bank as being in the process of being cashed. "It was, like, $25,000 of checks that were in the process of being processed by the bank," the mayor said. The bank closed the old account and the city opened a new checking account; the mayor said…
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