Outside eyes examine sewer numbers
A CPA firm has given the Oconee Joint Regional Sewer Authority an unmodified opinion on its finances for the government year 2019-20. Chris Eleazer, JRSA executive director, delivered the annual audit last week to a meeting of the JRSA board of commissioners. According to Eleazer, the unmodified opinion is what government entities hope for when CPAs examine what is spent and collected. For that 12-month year, the net position dropped $5.5 million—the result of the JRSA’s unprecedented decision to return monies to the member cities. That decision has resulted in what some see as a need for the JRSA to raise the treatment charges paid by Seneca, Walhalla, and Westminster. No vote has yet been taken.