Bucklin auditors report clean 2025 audit at July 9 special council session

At a July 9 special session, Mayor Cody Warden presided as the Bucklin City Council received a review of the city's 2025 financial audit.

Lisa Axman, a representative of Lewis Hooper & Dick, presented the audit and reported a clean audit for the 2025 fiscal year, indicating the firm found no material weaknesses or findings in the city's financial statements for that period. The transcript records Axman's review as the primary substantive presentation at the meeting.

The presentation came alongside a review of the draft budget; Axman also discussed the budget documents prepared for council consideration. The council set the Revenue Neutral Rate and Budget Hearing for Sept. 2, 2026 at 6:00 p.m., a procedural step in the city's annual budget schedule.

No department heads provided reports at the meeting, and the agenda references an executive session without recording any substance or formal action related to it in the transcript. The meeting ended after a procedural motion to adjourn passed unanimously.

The council may take future formal action on the budget after the Sept. 2 public hearing.