MO: Clay County in danger of flunking audit

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Independent auditors have told Clay County its system of keeping
track of $142 million collected for taxing entities such as school and
fire districts is inadequate.

. . .

Reeves said the problem was her computer system. She said the
software was producing year-end reports that did not reconcile with
her clerks' daily cash balance records.

. . .

"We put in a new system last year," Brandom said. "Anytime you
put in a new system, there's a process for data input and there's a
learning curve and there are a lot of problems that could go wrong in
learning that process."

. . .

Reeves said her department hurriedly purchased the software for
Y2K upgrades last year. She said foot dragging by other county
officials delayed the contract with Automated Systems and caused
the company and her department to miss bugs in the program.

For example, she said the same software last year mistakenly
applied a personal property tax levy to about 30,000 real estate tax
bills in Kansas City, North.

The Star

-- spider (spider0@usa.net), August 23, 2000


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