JASPER, Tenn. – The top concern for most city administrators is the annual audit report, because it’s either a confirmation they are handling a town’s finances properly or a condemnation of their work.
At the March meeting of the Jasper Board of Mayor and Aldermen, city leaders’ efforts were validated, not just for the last fiscal year but for past decades.
Paul Johnson, with Johnson, Murphey & Wright in Chattanooga, said he couldn’t be prouder of the financial work Jasper has done.
The town’s audit report for the 2015 fiscal year reflects “not only what happened in the last year, but what’s happened the last 20 years in town,” he said.
In 2014, Jasper took in $1.7 million in revenue, but during the last fiscal year that increased to $1.9 million. Expenditures, though, remained almost the same.