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Greensburg accepts 2025 audit; auditor flags sanitation fund and accounting corrections
Summary
The Greensburg City Council accepted the 2025 financial audit on July 6, 2026. Auditor Jeremy Appel said the Sanitation Fund's health is a concern, staff corrected a $9,779 budget violation, and adjustments cleared years of accumulated court liabilities; the report will be filed with the state.
Jeremy Appel of Kennedy McKee presented the city's 2025 financial audit to the Greensburg City Council on July 6, and the council voted 5-0 to accept the report.
Appel told the council there were no significant audit findings or disagreements with management but said he was "concerned for the health of the Sanitation Fund." Auditors identified and corrected a $9,779 budget violation within that fund and noted a formula error in budget-creation documents that staff corrected before the 2026 draft budget was finalized. Appel also described an adjustment to clear several years of accumulated court liabilities that had been improperly recorded; those were fees collected and remitted to the state but had not reduced the liability accounts when coded through an expense line.
Mayor Matt Christenson expressed concern about the General Fund's ending cash balance shown in the audit and noted a significant decrease in court revenue. Administrator Stacy Barnes said budgeted court revenue was overstated in 2025 and that she had already made corrections in the 2026 and 2027 draft budgets. Appel confirmed Kennedy McKee will file Greensburg's audit report with the state as required.
The council, acting on a motion by Mark Trummel and a second by Nathan Charlton, accepted the audit report unanimously. The acceptance does not itself change budget figures; staff will bring any recommended budget adjustments to future meetings for formal action.
