Glitches with county budgeting software postpone council budget workshop
Summary
The Lake County Council quickly adjourned its first budget workshop Thursday without hearing any presentations from department heads in order to provide a little more time to get a few glitches worked out with the new software. The fact that the county is entering the budget process without a firm grasp of what its actual cash balance is due to the data entry issue. Michael Repay, D-Hammond, president of the Board of Commissioners, said the body solicited proposals and interviewed several firms before selecting Baker Tilly US LLP. He said the firm was deemed the most qualified to do the job because of its past experience with the county, the state, the area of government finance and the Oracle accounting system. He has faith in the numbers that the county has been using as it enters the budget season, but said it is time a system is put in place that provides verifiable confirmation, which the State Board of Accounts then can use to complete its audit.