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Helper: audit, budget transfer and water loan

The Ledger's review of Helper's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.

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Auditing Helper: what the city's latest audit shows

Helper's audited statements for fiscal 2025 report $15.2 million in long-term debt, most of it owed by the water and sewer systems, and a general fund that spent $151,634 more than it took in. The auditor gave an unmodified opinion and reported one state compliance finding.

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Latest update · June 30, 2025 · published Oct 17

Helper's fiscal 2025 audit reports three funds over budget

Helper's fiscal 2025 audit reports that the Municipal Building Authority fund spent $459,331 on a public works building project with no adopted appropriation, and that the sewer and garbage funds also exceeded their budgets.

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  1. Helper's fiscal 2025 audit reports three funds over budget · published Oct 17
  2. Helper's fiscal 2025 general fund budget included a $330,000 transfer that was never made · published Oct 17
  3. Helper retired a 2015 water loan and drew $2.4 million on a new one running to 2064 · published Oct 17

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