Auditing Huntington
The Ledger's review of Huntington's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.
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Background
Auditing Huntington: A $1.2 million general fund, $659,000 in park and fire-station bonds, and an unmodified 2025 audit opinion
This series follows Huntington City's money through its own records. The fiscal 2025 audit gives the city an unmodified opinion and reports $659,000 in lease revenue bonds. The fiscal 2027 budget the council adopted in June plans $1,192,333 in general fund revenue.
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Huntington's fiscal 2026 and 2027 utility budgets list expenses above revenue
The utility fund budget Huntington adopted for fiscal 2027 lists $625,891 in expenses against $566,600 in revenue, and the amended fiscal 2026 budget lists $653,891 against $580,600. In the last audited year, fiscal 2025, the fund took in more than it spent and ended with $574,435 in cash.
- Politics
Huntington council accepts $74,400 cemetery concrete bid
On Aug. 19, 2026, the City Council voted 5-0 to accept a $74,400 bid from Los Aviles LLC for cemetery concrete, choosing between two bids. The motion cited the use of a local contractor. The same meeting tabled a pickleball and basketball court project while staff looked into grants.
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Huntington council approves $34,101 curb and sidewalk invoice; the bid was $21,000
June 2025 minutes record that the final invoice for curb work along state Highway 31 came to $34,101 against a $21,000 bid, because it included new sidewalk. The mayor said legal counsel advised paying it because there was no way to prove what had been agreed. The council approved payment 3-1.