The committee reviewed vouchers that were included with the meeting packet and voted to accept them. The staff explained that the monthly financial reports prepared by the finance team were withheld so newly assigned staff could finish training and produce accurate, non-rushed reports; the committee agreed to defer the financial reports to the Dec. 18 meeting.

Supervisor Laufer moved to accept the vouchers and Supervisor Wolf seconded; the committee voted in favor and the vouchers were accepted. No roll-call tally was recorded in the transcript and no additional financial report was presented at this meeting.

A member identified multiple contractual/consulting line items across departments and totaled them at $27,244.16 for September. Carmen explained that "contractual and consulting" is a catch-all expense category that includes prepaid annual contracts (split across months for accounting accuracy), external pharmacy and therapy contracts, facilities charges for services provided by central facilities staff, and other recurring service agreements such as the EMR system and nurse-call vendor. She said these charges are allocated to the appropriate cost centers and that prepaids are recognized monthly to smooth large annual bills.

The committee did not change the vouchers after discussion and did not take additional budgetary action at the meeting.