Published: February 06, 2009 01:17 am      

Ferguson receives a positive review on its recent audit

Local News

It’s good financial news for the City of Ferguson, which received a positive review on its most recent audit.

CPA Barry Daulton was on hand at the Ferguson City Council meeting Monday night to report on the audited financial statements for the fiscal year which ended June 30, 2008.

Daulton said that in his opinion, the financial statements present a clean outlook and there were no instances of non-compliance.

The city council also heard from Tim Woodcock of Precision Technical Solutions, who is currently working to survey the City of Ferguson.

Woodcock said the boundary surveying is progressing well and within two to three days, he should be finished with the field work. However, Woodcock said, though the original boundaries were pretty easy to follow, there have been some confusing areas within the surveying process.

The council asked City Attorney Heidi Powers look into the question on the boundaries to see what she finds.

“No matter what I find, it’s not going to be a clear cut answer,” said Powers.

The city opted to have its boundaries surveyed when discussion began about possible annexation, as they can’t move forward with any such plans until their boundaries are clear.

In other business:

• Dennis Crist, code enforcement officer for the city, said seven houses were underway for the scattered housing project.

• Mayor Allen Dobbs said he would like to thank Eric Weddle of Weddle Enterprises for moving quickly to do repairs on the road when there have been issues involving replacement of water lines.

• Dobbs said he and other city officials met with a representative of Kentucky Utilities (KU) about the tremendous amount of blackouts, and he explained some of the repairs they’ve done recently and what they plan to do.

The mayor asked that if there are blackouts, residents call it in to KU or report the problem to Ferguson City Hall, so they can let KU know. Dobbs said if KU doesn’t have records, they don’t know when such things have happened, as it doesn’t register with the utility company that there has been a problem if the outage is under 30 minutes.

He also noted that KU keeps a list of residents who are on some type of life-support such as oxygen, so they can focus on those areas first when there are outages. Dobbs also asked that residents let KU know if there is someone on a machine to help them medically, or let Ferguson City Hall know and they will contact KU.

• The council approved Carolyn Westberry for the open position on the city’s planning and zoning board.