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City consultant unveils new financial dashboards, flags coding errors in sales‑tax data
Summary
Matt Long presented new dashboards that pull data back to 2021 to track revenues and expenses monthly, noted coding errors that caused an apparent negative sales‑tax month and said he will correct source data, and proposed monthly departmental appropriations and quarterly dashboard presentations.
Matt Long, the city’s financial consultant, presented a new set of dashboards designed to show month‑to‑month collections and year‑to‑date fund performance dating back to 2021. “This takes raw data from your financial system that you take at the end of the month after the balancing and everything else has been done,” Long said as he described how the dashboards assemble line‑item data to produce monthly and accumulated views.
Long pointed to a coding error that produced a negative balance for a sales‑tax line in September and said he will correct the source data and adjust journal entries to reflect proper timing of receipts. He proposed department‑level monthly appropriations reports and a quarterly presentation cadence (Q1, Q2, Q3, year end) to help the council track budgets and prepare for capital planning.
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