The City of Indianola reviewed the FY2020 audit at the most recent Indianola City Council meeting, with positive results for the city finances and procedures. City Manager Ryan Waller tells KNIA News two areas that were reported by the audit were problems that many cities and municipalities of comparable size run into, segregation of duties for city employees and who has access to city credit cards.

‘As a smaller organization with not a lot of staff we have some people doing a lot of different aspects of the intake and paying invoices. So we are doing work on addressing those. And the other issue is our credit card system with city staff. So if our fire department needs a new tire then our firefighters can go purchase one rather than having to wait and go through council and pay the bill in two weeks, our department can go get it replaced quickly, and we are working to make sure those are run correctly.”

Waller also said he hopes the community is comforted by the fact that city employees are good stewards of the taxpayer dollar.