Misreported expenditure

Reported orders placed, not payments, as FY2025 spending

$21,870.06

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalHowell Township

Misreported expenditure · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 3 documents

The FY2025 report certifies 21,870.06 expended in the period 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025, 5,000.00 of it administrative, and 0.00 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent (p1). The account paid 24,575.48 in that period, 19,575.48 to vendors and the 5,000.00 salary journal of 05/23/2025, reference 1613. The certified figure leaves out 4,455.42 paid in the period on four orders placed before 07/01/2024. They are Little Hat Marketing check 95107 for 373.00 and USA Custom Tents check 95129 for 2,745.00 on 07/16/2024, WRS Group check 95249 for 1,010.71 on 07/31/2024 and Cerebellum check 95278 for 326.71 on 08/15/2024. It adds 1,750.00 for two orders placed in the period and unpaid when it closed. Elson-Victor order 25-02491 for 250.00 was paid by check 97454 on 07/01/2025. Bellace order 25-02312 for 1,500.00 was paid by check 98084 on 10/15/2025. 24,575.48 less 4,455.42 plus 1,750.00 is 21,870.06, the certified figure to the cent. The report counts orders by the date they were placed, not payments by the date they were made. It also reports nothing encumbered while both orders were open on 06/30/2025.