Over in McNairy County, there’s a lot of room for improvement with how county officials manage taxpayer money, according to an audit Tennessee Comptrollers released this week. “The county’s audit for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2018 includes 11 findings of noncompliance or significant deficiency within county government offices,” Comptrollers wrote in a press release. “Eight of those findings were reported in the prior year’s audit and have not been corrected.” No one at the county mayor’s office was available to speak to The Tennessee Star. Auditors reported finding problems in the offices of the county mayor, sheriff, highway commissioner, and director of schools. These findings included expenditures exceeding approved appropriations, accounting deficiencies, a cash overdraft, and inadequate internal controls over software programs. “McNairy County has had at least nine audit findings in each of the last five fiscal years,” Comptrollers said in the press release. “Meanwhile, other Tennessee counties have experienced improved audit results.” Among the findings, according to the audit itself: • Management failed to hold spending to the limits authorized by the county. Expenditures exceeded total appropriations approved by the county commission in the General, Solid Waste/Sanitation, Drug Control, and General Debt Service funds by $1,286,619, $98,663,…
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