Copperas Cove council accepts FY2025 audit, auditors issue clean opinions on financials and tested federal grant

Copperas Cove’s City Council on Feb. 3 accepted the city’s fiscal year 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report after auditors delivered a clean set of reports covering the city’s financial statements and tested federal grant awards.

Pat Pruitt, the engagement partner introduced to the council during the meeting, told the council the firm had issued an "unmodified opinion" on the city’s financial statements, meaning the auditors found no material misstatements. He also said the auditors issued an unmodified opinion on the single-audit testing for federal grant awards the city received.

"We've issued what's called an unmodified opinion," Pruitt said during the presentation, adding the auditors found no significant internal-control deficiencies that would need to be reported under government auditing standards.

The auditors’ report shows the city recorded just under $11,400,000 in federal grant awards for the fiscal year; the auditors selected the Defense Community Infrastructure Program (DCIP) — about $10,300,000 of that total — for compliance testing. Pruitt said the testing covered typical grant compliance areas such as allowability and reporting and that the city complied, in the auditors’ view, "in all material respects" with the requirements of the program.

After a brief question period, a councilmember moved to approve the FY2025 Comprehensive Financial Report and the motion carried unanimously.

The approval formally places the FY2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report in the city’s official records and concludes the audit engagement for that fiscal year. Council members and staff thanked the audit team and the city’s financial-services staff for their work preparing the report.

The council approved the report during the Feb. 3 meeting; no further action was announced at that time.