Finance director: auditors to be scheduled; board presses on water/sewer discrepancies as ClearGov data is uploaded

Finance Director Troy Neff told the Milford Select Board on March 23 that the town is preparing for a 2024 audit and plans to follow quickly with a 2025 audit to catch up on delayed work.

"We've been in conversation with our external auditors... The plan is to we're gonna do the '24 audit, and then very shortly thereafter do the '25 audit because we're finally getting... almost all caught up," Neff said, adding staff are assembling documents and an upload link will let the town circulate materials to auditors.

Board members pushed Neff on a persistent discrepancy between the town's general ledger and water and sewer accounting. Neff said he requested financial statements from the water/sewer side and has circulated analysis to external auditors to resolve why a receivable on the town side did not appear as a payable on the water/sewer statements. "We requested financial statements from the water and sewer side... we did not see that," he said, and noted a data‑cleanup effort is underway.

Neff also described progress implementing ClearGov for public financial transparency and said historical data back to 2003 (when the town's Munis system began) has been uploaded. He cautioned that some data corrections are still being applied and that staff will circulate a schedule once audit dates are set.

During public comment, resident Jay Duffy urged a clear breakdown of historical entries and commended Neff for his work. The board asked that external auditors be scheduled to appear before the board when practical and that staff aim to produce a clearer report on the water/sewer reconciliation.