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Boyle County audit comes back mostly clean

April 17, 2012|By STEPHANIE MOJICA | smojica@amnews.com

State officials found virtually no bookkeeping problems in a routine audit of Boyle County Fiscal Court’s finances.

In 2010-11, Fiscal¿Court managed about $15.5 million of net assets, according to a recently-released report by state Auditor Adam Edelen. 

State auditors evaluate every fiscal court in Kentucky annually.

Boyle County took in about $5.1 million of tax revenue during 2010-11, according to the report.

Each fiscal court must keep a list of all assets owned. The only problem auditors pointed out in Boyle County’s report was with the list of assets, which they felt was incomplete. 

Judge-Executive Harold McKinney wrote in response, “The county treasurer was the one who made the auditors aware of the prior omitted capital assets. She felt the Fiscal Court’s financial statement should be accurate and reflect total assets. These capital assets primarily are land and buildings in Millennium Park. The expenditures were lump-sum appropriations and federal grant funds. Boyle County’s contributions to Millennium Park ended approximately 2002.”

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McKinney said during a telephone interview Friday that despite the misunderstanding regarding whether Millennium Park assets should be counted as county property that the issue was “very minor” and that the county had a “good audit.”

“I think one reason we usually have good audits is that our treasurer really stays on top of everything,” McKinney said. “Also, we do all financial business in an open meeting. I think it’s important to conduct such matters in an open forum, and that also really helps with keeping accurate records.”

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