HUNTERDON COUNTY, NJ – The Hunterdon County Commissioner Board recently received the 2023 Independent Audit that again certified county financial record keeping as “clean” for a record ninth consecutive year.
“I want to thank our County CFO, Andrew Bernath and his finance staff, and our leadership team for continuing to ensure that Hunterdon County has strong fiscal controls and oversight. Each year when the independent auditing firm releases its findings on county finances, we speak about the outstanding finance and accounting controls that have been put in place. This is not rhetoric. It is a fact, proven out by the clean audit for an incredible nine years in-a-row,” Commissioner Director Jeff Kuhl said.
“Careful control over where the taxpayers’ dollars are spent, is a vital component of the strategy that has helped this Board reduce the County tax rate to the 2015 level, after freezing the tax rate for six years, and continuing to have no county debt since 2014. Again, I appreciate all the hard work that has gone into this process and appreciate the outside, independent verification, from Suplee, Clooney & Company,” Kuhl said.
“To have an independent auditor make a determination of a clean audit once is a cause for celebration. To have those findings made for nine consecutive years demonstrates a track record of excellence The finance record and conservative philosophy of this Board, the controls that are in place, the ability to track spending, all of it, certified once again by the independent auditor lets our taxpayers know that we are using their hard-earned dollars judiciously and appropriately,” Commissioner John Lanza said.
The Board of Commissioners congratulated County CFO Andrew Bernath, and all the Department Heads and others involved in the finance, payroll, purchasing, and budgeting process for the clean audit accomplishment for the ninth year.
