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Audit Gives High Marks To Berlin Finances

money, Talia Felix

Good news for the Town of Berlin from its auditors.

PKS and Company reports that the municipality was in good financial shape with a $7.5 million fund balance.

With $6.8 million not allocated it equals the town’s operating expenses for the next a year and a half.

The auditors noted that the town increased its general fund balance by 3 percent.

And revenues were up by 5 percent while expenses declined by 16 percent to $4.9 million.

But the town’s debt service costs did go up amounting to just under $450-thousand or 9 percent of overall expenditures.

Don Rush is the News Director and Senior Producer of News and Public Affairs at Delmarva Public Media. An award-winning journalist, Don reports major local issues of the day, from sea level rise, to urban development, to the changing demographics of Delmarva.