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Finance reports midyear progress; county receives clean audit but auditors flag internal-control deficiencies
Summary
Finance staff reported a clean (unmodified) audit opinion for FY24 alongside audit findings that identified significant internal-control deficiencies and recommended additional staffing, segregation of duties, and documentation improvements.
The county’s finance staff presented a midyear report and the FY24 audit status. The auditor delivered the year-end draft ACFR and staff reported that the county received an unmodified (clean) opinion on the FY24 audit. Finance explained that audit adjustments raised the general fund surplus by roughly $55,000 in one revision and an additional $16,000 in a later revision.
Despite the clean opinion, auditors identified significant internal-control deficiencies (a classification short of a material weakness but requiring corrective action). Finance staff outlined a corrective-action plan emphasizing segregation of duties, improved documentation and policy management, more resilient staffing to avoid single-person dependencies, and the possibility of an independent internal-control review. Staff said they had requested additional accounting support and will continue implementing the corrective-action plan ahead of FY25 audit work.
