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2016-09-19 MINUTES 1 <br />COMMISSIONERS' MINUTES <br />KITTITAS COUNTY, WASHINGTON <br />COMMISSIONER’S CONFERENCE ROOM <br />SPECIAL MEETING <br /> <br />MONDAY 1:00 P.M. SEPTEMBER 19, 2016 <br /> <br />Board members present: Chairman Obie O’Brien; Vice-Chairman, Paul <br />Jewell & Commissioner Laura Osiadacz. <br /> <br />Others: Mandy Buchholz, Deputy Clerk of the Board; Mandy Wilson, <br />Audit Lead; Ann Strand, Audit Manager; Judy Pless, Budget & Finance <br />Manager; Brett Wachsmith, Treasurer; and one member of the public. <br /> <br />SPECIAL MEETING STATE AUDITOR COMMISSIONERS <br /> <br />At 1:00 p.m. Chairman O’Brien opened a Special Meeting with <br />representatives from the Washington State Auditor’s office to go <br />over the Exit Financial and Federal single audit that was conducted <br />on Kittitas County for the period January 1, 2015 through December <br />31, 2015. <br /> <br />Ann Strand, Audit Manager provided handouts and reviewed their <br />agenda for the Exit Conference. <br /> <br />Mandy Wilson, Assistant Audit Manager stated that the results they <br />will go over are from the County’s Financial and Federal Audit. She <br />explained that the Accountability Audit will be conducted soon but <br />most importantly she wanted to highlight that the County has a clean <br />audit/no findings. <br /> <br />Ann Strand, Audit Manager explained that this was the first year of <br />uniform guidance which had a significant amount of changes and <br />impacts to Counties. She stated that Kittitas County had no <br />significant findings. She provided & reviewed a Management Letter <br />and highlighted that it is recommended that County Management <br />improve controls over financial reporting. <br /> <br />Mandy Wilson, Assistant Audit Manager reviewed a draft summary of <br />the Auditor’s results and noted that the Highway Planning and <br />Construction was selected as a major program in their audit of <br />compliance in accordance with the Uniform Guidance. She stated that <br />the dollar threshold used to distinguish between Type A and Type B <br />programs, as prescribed by the Uniform Guidance, as $750,000.00, <br />noting that the County qualified as a low-risk auditee under the <br />Uniform Guidance. Ms. Wilson reviewed the report on compliance for <br />each major Federal program and stated that it is their opinion the <br />County complied, in all material respects, with the types of <br />compliance requirements that could have a direct and material effect <br />on each of its major Federal programs for the year ended December