Financial consultant unveils new dashboards and flags sales-tax coding issue

Jul 28, 2026

Matt Long presented new financial dashboards covering revenue and expense trends, identified a misposted payment that produced a negative sales-tax month and recommended quarterly dashboard reviews and monthly department-level appropriations reports.

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Matt Long, the financial consultant introduced at the meeting, walked the council through a new dashboard set that pulls line items from the city financial system, offers month-to-month and year-to-date comparisons back to 2021, and can be condensed or expanded per council preference. He said property-tax receipts typically arrive in January and June and reviewed primary revenue drivers and fund performance.

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