Blaine County has received a clean audit for fiscal 2020, an auditor told the county commissioners in a presentation Tuesday.
The county’s financials were given the stamp of approval by auditor Curtis Stoker, a certified public accountant based in Rupert.
“You can’t get any better than that,” Stoker said.
The county’s net position moved from roughly $44 million to about $41 million from the start of the fiscal year to its end, Stoker said, though that decrease includes $2.5 million worth of depreciation in county assets.
The commissioners voted to approve the audit following the presentation.
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Interesting that the Mountain Express felt the need to run a story on the annual financial audit for Blaine County. The public could not secure a copy of the audit in advance of this presentation, and no information from the audit that the auditor was referencing was broadcasted on the screen so any public attending that meeting was left in the dark as to the documents being discussed. Previously I have been asked by the Budget Officer not to ask any more questions of the auditor by email, so in yesterday's meeting I brought up the discrepancy of the County's 2019 Expense budget reporting, but the auditor would not address my question. On page 66 of the FY19 Final Budget (posted on the County's website, https://www.co.blaine.id.us/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/119) there is a section of Grand Total numbers. There are columns for Original Budget, Budget Changes, and Budgeted Amount. It would seem to me that the Original Budget Column added to Budget Changes would equal Budget Amount, but the Original Budget Column and The Budget Amount Columns are the same. You can see more about this on the Facebook page, "What the Mountain Express isn't reporting" . https://www.facebook.com/groups/2820689748173137
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