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Commissioners debate resurfacing fund transparency; opt for reconciliations and regular reporting
Summary
Following discovery of miscoded expenditures and a $3 million bookkeeping discrepancy, commissioners considered splitting the countywide resurfacing fund into five district accounts but instead approved periodic reconciliations and regular balance reports to commissioners to improve transparency.
The board heard a detailed accounting review and debated how to improve transparency for the countywide resurfacing program after staff discovered miscoding that produced a reconciliation variance.
Richard Powell (finance) described prior budget practices and said that when the Countywide Resurfacing Fund was established two to three years ago it was budgeted in total but not allocated by district. "When you…
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