Franklin City manager flags accounting gaps, recommends forensic audit and short‑term budget fix

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City Manager Rosalind Oglesby told a joint meeting of Franklin City Council and the school board that internal review found reconciliation gaps and accounting practices that left the city at risk; she recommended a forensic audit (estimated $500,000) and asked council to transfer $757,540 from fund balance to balance FY26.

City Manager Rosalind Oglesby told a joint session of the Franklin City Council and the Franklin City Public Schools that an internal review uncovered accounting and reconciliation problems that must be addressed before the city’s audits can be completed.

Oglesby said auditors had certified a beginning cash balance that had been used by some school auditors but that liabilities and multiyear projects — notably roof and HVAC work — make the number misleading. “What I did know was that the city had a a financial credit rating, the double a, by, Moody's,” Oglesby said in the presentation summarizing what she found after 301 days on the job. She said the city’s financial system is operating on a cash basis in places and lacks fund restrictions in others, which has caused revenue and expense timing mismatches.

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Franklin City manager flags accounting gaps, recommends forensic audit and short‑term budget fix

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