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The Carrollton City Council convened for a Worksession at 5:45 PM and a Regular Meeting at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, at City Hall. The Worksession featured a presentation on the Cascade Strategy visualization platform and the Destination 2040 Vision Plan update, and a detailed briefing on the city's bond program and the upcoming May 2, 2026 bond election. The Regular Meeting included proclamations for National Library Week and the Citizens Government Academy graduating class, followed by the unanimous approval of a consent agenda covering audits, construction contracts, and bond issuances. One resident addressed the council during Public Forum regarding an alley paving request.
All right. Welcome, welcome. It is five forty-five. We'll start our work session. Thank you to all of our guests back here for being here. Um we will start with our minutes, items number ten and eleven. Any comments or questions? Number twelve is consider authorizing the city manager to enter into an agreement with Orvis Mazars LLP pursuant to RFP two six dash zero one four for independent auditing services for an amount not to exceed a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the fiscal year twenty twenty-six audit. This is actually our former audit partner. Um Dan Barone. And our our prior partner retired, right? And uh the partner did, yeah. And then Dan's coming back, and we've had him before, so he's familiar with the account. So that's good stuff. I'm not really clear on this whole thing. Um, they prepare this of software used to prepare financial statements, right? Who audits do they self-audit for those financial statements that we're preparing? So the city of Carrollton prepares its own financial statements. We use a software that Forvis Mazar's used for so many different clients that they had that they bought it. So we just since it's all with the same company, we just pay for it. So we pay them to do our single audit, we pay them to do our financial statement audit. Um, single audit is federal grant, so it depends it its cost varies, and then we also pay them for the software. So every year, Melissa is gonna bring back um a different um dollar amount because it'll change every year depending on what's happening. Like if we have two grants that they have to audit, it'll cost more. If we have one grant that they're gonna audit it, it costs less. Okay, and the financial statements we prepare. We prepare the financial Melissa's group prepares the financial. I gotcha, thank you. I I I guess we're pretty uh satisfied they always do a pretty good job. They did a pretty good job last year. They do a very good job. Melissa, do you want to comment on that? Melissa Everett, Dr. Finance. Yes, they do a great job. They've getting good reviews with the finance committee whenever they go through the thorough. We just changed partners with them so that it's on a rotating basis on South. And we've only been with this actual company for about three years. Three years, okay.