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Hood County court approves posted elected-salary changes, hears budget hearing and accepts clean FY2024 audit
Summary
Commissioners accepted the FY2024 audit (unmodified opinion), debated a posted 10% increase for elected-official salaries and discussed a possible 10% across-the-board employee budget; mandated statutory salary increases for the county court-at-law judge and county attorney were approved and staff reviewed fund-balance and comp-time options.
At its Aug. 12 meeting Hood County Commissioners received the FY2024 annual financial and single-audit reports and debated budget items including proposed 10% salary increases. External auditors from Pattillo, Brown & Hill delivered an unmodified (clean) audit opinion for fiscal year 2024 and reported no compliance findings for single-audit ARPA expenditures.
Why it matters: The court’s budget choices will determine staffing, comp-time payoff and whether to use fund balance to reduce next year’s tax rate or fund one-time obligations. The audit opinion is material for…
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