Auditing Millville
The Ledger's review of Millville's budgets, audits, debt and redevelopment money.
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Background
Auditing Millville: what the city's audit, budget and sewer debt records show
Millville's audited statements for fiscal 2025 received an unmodified opinion and show $17.67 million in water and sewer revenue bonds, most of it tied to the city's new sewer system. The 2026-27 budget tables in the June 11 council packet total $3,950,400 across four funds.
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Millville's sewer system: $15.9 million in sewer bonds, $9.3 million in grants and the payments now starting
Millville's fiscal 2025 audit lists five water and sewer revenue bonds totaling $17.67 million, three of them for sewer. Two interest-free sewer bonds begin annual payments in fall 2026, and the 2026-27 budget adds a DEQ sewer loan payment.
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Millville's share of Hyrum's sewer plant: the 2020 agreement terms and a $1.4 million state grant
Millville's audit says a 2020 agreement gives the city a 20% ownership share of Hyrum's wastewater treatment plant in exchange for monthly per-home payments. A June 2026 staff report says the state provided $1.4 million in additional grant funding for the buy-in.
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Millville's fiscal 2025 audit reports differences between a quarterly report and the general ledger
In Millville's fiscal 2025 audit, the auditor reported that a quarterly financial report given to the City Council in January 2025 differed from the general ledger. Draft minutes say the council approved the audit after the auditors discussed the issue "again."