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Independent auditors issue clean opinions on Mental Health & Public Safety fund schedules; audit not a probe of how $20M accumulated
Summary
CliftonLarsonAllen presented two audit deliverables for the Mental Health & Public Safety fund and issued unmodified opinions on the financial schedules; the auditors said their engagement did not investigate how the fund reached $20 million, a point raised by committee members and local discussion.
CliftonLarsonAllen (CLA) presented the results of an audit of the county’s Mental Health & Public Safety fund financial schedules, issuing unmodified (clean) opinions on both the schedule of expenditures and transfers out and the schedule of obligations.
Brian Mattis, a signing director with CLA, described the audit scope as testing three significant areas — non-payroll expenditures and transfers out, payroll expenditures and transfers out, and obligations — and said CLA provided a governance letter with minor observations but no disagreements with management. "We did issue unmodified clean opinions over the two financial schedules," Mattis said. When asked whether CLA’s engagement included an examination of how the fund accumulated $20,000,000 as reported in local social media, Mattis replied plainly: "That was not the scope of our work." The auditor also noted that unobligated fund balance was shown as a deficit on the schedule but that future revenue-sharing of home rule sales tax is expected to fund the deficit as required by the intergovernmental agreement.
After questions from committee members about obligations beyond the current year and the fund balance, the executive committee voted to accept and place the audit on file.
