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Dade City accepts delayed FY2023 audit; commission adopts budget amendments tied to stormwater and sanitation funds
Summary
Purvis & Gray reported the FY2023 financial statements are fairly stated but cited a material weakness in internal controls; the commission accepted the audit and approved Resolution 2025-32 to amend FY24–25 budgets, addressing sanitation and stormwater shortfalls, on a 5–0 vote.
The Dade City City Commission on Tuesday formally received and accepted the fiscal year 2023 audit after an auditor presentation that stressed the financial statements were "fairly stated in all material respects" but flagged weaknesses in internal controls.
Helen Painter, audit partner with Purvis & Gray, told commissioners that auditors "found no issues or fraud" in the FY2023 audit but that the city had a material weakness in internal controls because accounting records were significantly behind and had required additional staff to reconcile. Painter said the audit team believes the statements are fairly stated after corrective work but recommended policies and procedures to prevent recurrence.
Painter and commission discussion highlighted several operational concerns: an overstated stormwater budget that had not been amended; utility rates that may not fully cover costs; and a sanitation fund loss traced in part to third‑party contractual rate increases that outpaced charges to the city’s customers.
Under new business, the commission approved Resolution 2025‑32, an amendment to the FY24–25 budget that reallocated appropriations to account for unanticipated operating and capital expenditures and to correct estimated revenues. City Finance Officer Mr. Altman told commissioners the sanitation fund had absorbed roughly $38,000 in costs tied to monitoring of a former landfill (Perris Grove) and identified a $268,000 reduction in stormwater cash carried forward. Altman said some transfers (including ARPA and the local 'penny for Pasco' program) were used to align capital and operating records.
The motion to receive the audit and the budget amendment both passed on unanimous roll‑call votes, 5–0. City staff said they are hiring and restructuring finance staff to address the internal‑control weaknesses and expect to bring FY2024 and FY2025 records current.
