After telling The Dispatch last week that Watkins, Ward and Stafford believed finishing the Fiscal Year 2021 audit within 30 days was “realistic,” Mayor Keith Gaskin said Wednesday the timeline is no longer as certain.
In the wake of a devastating Fiscal Year 2020 audit report, Chief Financial Officer James Brigham said at a Wednesday press conference the city is already working to correct the problems, estimating it would take about six months to get it all under control.
The city overspent its general fund budget by more than $3.2 million in Fiscal Year 2020 and lacked the bookkeeping at that time to realize it was happening.