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Pickens council warned of $1M-plus general-fund shortfall; staff urged to await auditors' findings
Summary
City staff told the Pickens City Council that overdue audits and state withholding have left the general fund running a more-than-$1 million deficit, prompting calls for a prompt auditor briefing and a separate review of the budget by the city's CPA.
Mayor Isaac convened the Pickens City Council work session Monday and led a report from the city administrator and finance staff that identified significant audit backlogs and a large general-fund shortfall.
The city administrator told the council that auditors are finalizing the 2024 audit and flagged issues stretching back to fiscal years 2022–2024, and recommended bringing in CPA David McAllister to review the budget and closing entries so the council can identify and correct inherited accounting problems. The administrator said that bringing the CPA in would allow staff to ‘‘confront any issue and…
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