Town answers audit concerns

After the rather dismal audit report for Moorcroft a couple weeks ago, Cheryl Schneider, Moorcroft's Clerk/Treasurer, has spoken at length with auditor Deidre Budahl, of Casey Peterson and Associates about concerns regarding the timing and subsequent numbers with which the auditor was working.

"I asked her where she came up with the figures because I couldn't come up with the same thing," she says.

The first significant error, Schneider found, was the timing of deposits into and expenditures out of the general fund. The enterprising accounts – water, sewer and garbage – are not separat...