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Wilmore receives positive audit

April 09, 2008|Tyler Young

The city of Wilmore received a clean audit for the fiscal year which ended in June 2007 at its city council meeting Monday night.

Jerry Hensley, an accountant from Ray, Foley, Hensley & Company, told the council in his presentation that the city's finances were in order, and the city is in good financial shape.

Overall, it was an excellent year," Hensley said. "This has to be classified as a very good report."

Now that Wilmore has received its audit, council members can begin working on a budget for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. It has already heard some requests for funding from different public service directors including a downtown renovation project proposed by Wilmore Director of Utilities and Public Works Dave Carlstedt and police sidearms upgrades proposed by Police Chief Steve Boven.

According to the auditor's report, the city's total assets stood at $19.23 million for the year, up approximately $783,000 from last year. The total liabilities payable was $4.21 million making the net assets $15.01 million. That was a $591,675 increase from 2006-2007.

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Take away the money invested in capital assets and restricted for other purposes, and the unrestricted net assets stood at $1.51 million. That is the money available for spending.

The report showed that the total general revenues were up $25,883 from last year - revenue from property taxes increased by approximately $40,000.

"I'm very happy - we had a clean audit," Wilmore Mayor Harold Rainwater said. "We had about a half a million dollar improvement from last year, and we paid off an extra $100,000 in debt, which is pretty good for a little town like ours to pay off 25 percent more than we owe."

Rainwater credited City Clerk Colleen Brandenburg for the shining report.

"I just really appreciate Colleen," he said. "She does an amazing job with limited resources; we're very thankful for her."

The city council will now be able to begin budget discussions for the 2008-2009 budget. The council will hear from the various public works directors in the upcoming weeks.

The Wilmore City Council meets the first three Mondays of each month at 6 p.m. in city hall.

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