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Mid‑year review: East Point staff find event spending higher than budgeted; propose single GL and project codes
Summary
City staff told council they found approximately $546,000 spent on two Wednesday Wind Down concerts so far (above a $400,000 allocation) and noted event costs were scattered across multiple departmental accounts; staff recommended consolidated GL/project codes and monthly reconciliation to improve transparency.
East Point — In a mid‑year review presented Jan. 12, city staff said they discovered dispersed accounting for events and recommended a unified project/general ledger (GL) code to track all event spending.
Interim Finance Director Elizabeth Cartwright and economic development staff said a deep file review showed the Wednesday Wind Down program alone had drawn…
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