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Oro Valley budget panel elects new chair, hears clean audit and warns of 9% sales-tax shortfall
Summary
The Budget & Finance Commission on Jan. 20 elected Vice Chair Carlsberg as chair and Chair Garland as vice chair, received an unmodified opinion on the town's FY2024–25 financial statements from Baker Tilly and heard staff project a $2.8 million (9%) shortfall in local sales-tax revenue, prompting talk of operational and capital cuts.
Oro Valley — The Budget & Finance Commission on Jan. 20 elected Vice Chair Carlsberg to serve as chair for 2026 and appointed Chair Garland as vice chair, heard that external auditors issued a clean opinion on the town's FY2024–25 financial statements, and received a financial update that projects a roughly $2.8 million shortfall in local sales-tax revenue.
Brian Hammerly, lead audit partner with Baker Tilly, told the commission the firm issued an unmodified — or "clean" — opinion on the town's annual comprehensive financial report. "You received what's called an unmodified opinion, which really just means you receive a clean opinion on your financial statements," Hammerly said, adding the firm issued a clean Yellow Book report on compliance and identified no material weaknesses.
Town staff and the auditor also reported no findings in the federal single audit for a major program this year (COVID‑19 State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds), meaning federal auditors did not…
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