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Wayne County approves response to state financial-performance concern, will present budgets at department level
Summary
The Wayne County Board of Commissioners approved a staff-prepared response to the Local Government Commission’s financial-performance indicators of concern and agreed to present future budgets rolled up to department level rather than the object-level detail that triggered the LGC concern.
Wayne County commissioners voted on Feb. 3 to approve staff’s response to a Local Government Commission (LGC) letter identifying a financial-performance indicator of concern related to expenditures recorded after the fiscal year end.
County finance staff told the board the county “overspent at the object level,” meaning individual line items in some funds showed post‑year-end charges that, when recorded back into the prior fiscal year, caused a violation that the LGC requires the county to address. The staff memo before commissioners cited four affected areas: public safety, human services, debt service and the county’s internal service fund for self‑insurance.
The finance presentation said the apparent violation resulted from subsequent…
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