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Shown above at the Thursday, January 2, 2020 Carroll County Commission work session left to right are Chairman Michelle Morgan, District 3 Commissioner
Tommy Lee, and District 2 Commissioner Clint Chance. Morgan told members of the board they were not to bring up certain questions about the county’s finances at
work session meetings, to which both Chance and Lee objected. Photo by Sue Horn
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District 4 Steve Fuller, District 5 Ernie
Reynolds, and District 6 George Chambers.
The county’s finance director Alecia
Searcy presented the financial recap stating
that “revenues were strong” and the county
is “$4 million ahead in cash of last year . .
and will exceed our budget.” She added that
“department heads are a doing a good job of
maintaining expenses.”
Chairman Morgan then asked if there
were any questions from the board for
Searcy.
Commissioner Ernie Reynolds, who is a
retired auditor from the Georgia State
Deprtment of Audits, said he had “a couple”
of questions. In particular, he asked if there
was a solution to remedy the lateness of
some invoice postings to the county’s
monthly financial reports as this can produce
an inaccurate financial picture for individual
months.
Reynolds said, “Some of the postings of, I
guess you call it accounts payable, were tun
ning late. . . the postings we [commission
board] are seeing don’t represent a true pic
ture of all the bills. So, I just wondered if
there is a reason for those running late? Or is
there something we need to do to catch those
up?”
Searcy answered that “at this point, we are
caught up. . . that’s one of the downsides of
not running a full accural accounting system.
. . we post our payables when we get them. .
. in a full accural system, you would go
ahead make that accrual at the end of the
month. But, in governmental accounting,
you don’t do it that way. That’s a downside
of doing our accounting. If vendors are get-
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