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Calumet council: state withholding funds while village audit remains unfinished
Summary
Trustee Virginia Dwyer presented Department of Treasury letters saying state payments are being withheld because the village audit has not been submitted; council debated allowing the state to complete the audit but rejected that motion on a 2–4 roll call.
Trustee Virginia Dwyer told the council she had shared letters from the Michigan Department of Treasury indicating the Village's audit report has not been submitted and that state funding is being withheld. "According to the letters, the state is currently withholding funding due to the Audit Report not being submitted to the state yet," Dwyer said.
Village Manager Megan Haselden told the council the audit itself has not been completed; she said the auditor promised the report would be delivered to the Village by the end of November. Trustee Peggy Germain moved, seconded by Dwyer, to accept the state's offer and have the Department of Treasury complete the audit; on roll call the motion failed (Yeas: Dwyer, Germain; Nays: Que, Ranville, Smith, Tarvis). The council did not adopt an alternate path at the meeting.
The dispute over how to proceed reflected differing views on the appropriate next step: some trustees favored using the Treasury's offer to complete the audit and unblock funds, while others cited concerns about ceding control of the audit process. The council did not take additional formal action on the subject at the meeting; Manager Haselden remains the point person to follow up with the auditor.
