The Gulfport City Council met on Tuesday, June 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM at Gulfport City Hall. The meeting included a presentation on the FY 2022-2023 audit, public comments on parking and other issues, approval of a resolution supporting a safety study for 49th Street, discussion and tabling of a resolution to remove parking on 53rd Street, and a discussion on permitting Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) which concluded with the council deciding not to proceed.
Welcome everyone to the June eighteenth, twenty twenty four regular city council meeting for Goldport Florida. Our invocation tonight is given by Vice Mayor Ino Herrett, followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Please join us in Ryzen. Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. Charles Bukowski. Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. To the Republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right, roll call, please, city clerk. Vice Mayor O'Hara. Here. Councilmember Thanos? Here. Councilmember Brown. Here. Councilmember Ray? Here. Mayor Henderson. Here. City Attorney Salzman. Here. City Manager O'Reilly. Here. City Clerk Carico present. All right. We have one presentation this evening. We have Jeff Wolfe with us, partner at MSL CPAs and Advisors, and it's going to be a review of our 2022, 2023 financial audit. Welcome. Thank you. How are you doing tonight? Good. First of all, I just wanted to thank you, the commission for allowing us to serve you as your external auditors. You know, we clearly understand we work for you. And but with that, I'll get right into the presentation. All right. So government auditing standards requires us to communicate certain things of government governance. So this slide kind of covers that. And first is really our responsibility. And you know, our responsibility is to perform an audit in accordance with the applicable standards, and then also render opinion on whether those financial statements are materially correct. Management is responsible for the financial statements. That's kind of important thing to remember. It's it's it's the city's act for it, it's not the auditors, so they're responsible of for establishing internal controls and preparing the act for you know that provide reasonable assurance that those financial statements are correct. Um we do test internal controls and compliance, um, but it's really just to gain understanding and help plan our audit. Um so we do not render opinion on controls, but if we had any material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in controls, we would communicate that to you. Um no difficulties encountered uh during the audit. You know, again, we this is our first year doing the audit, and also the finance team was you know pretty new as well. Um so you know, considering all those changes, I I would really say it was a very smooth transition. There was really no issues noted, so you know, a really you know, you know, good job to you know to the finance team of the city. Um no unusual accounting ventures conventions, meaning there's no transactions that weren't done in accordance with GAAP.