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Budget board hears county clerk's explanation for $14 million bookkeeping discrepancy, debates earlier release of financial reports
Summary
County clerk told the Oklahoma County Budget Board a $14 million discrepancy came from a data-entry error; commissioners and the Budget Evaluation Team debated projections and whether the clerk's office should provide monthly financial reports earlier for review.
The Oklahoma County Budget Board on Thursday heard an explanation from the county clerk for a $14,000,059.70 variance that showed up on recent financial reports and debated whether monthly financial documents should be provided to board members earlier.
The county clerk said the discrepancy resulted from a human error during the budget process when the wrong cell value was used. "We grabbed the wrong number," the clerk said, explaining that a $30 million figure was mistakenly used in place of a $16 million figure, which produced the $14 million difference. She apologized for not personally walking every elected office through the October documents and said…
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