FLINT, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – The city of Flint appears to have missed an extended deadline the state gave them to file its audited financial statements, continuing a trend of problematic administration.

While Flint Mayor Sheldon Neeley gave his “state of the city” address for the 2024 fiscal year on Nov. 13, the city has yet to make available its audited financial documents from that year.

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The state of Michigan gave Flint an extension and stated the financial reports must be filed no later than Feb. 3. The state website doesn’t show the documents as having been filed and the city communications department didn’t respond to an email asking if the documents had been filed.

Many municipalities filed their audited financial documents with the state in late December. The deadline is in early January and Flint asked for and received an extension to produce the documents in early February.

On Nov. 1, 2024, the city’s independent auditing firm Rehmann wrote the city a letter spelling out the problems the accounting firm had completing its audit of the 2023 fiscal year.

“The timing of our audit procedures was significantly delayed from the schedule agreed to during the planning stages of our engagement due to appropriate supporting information not being made available to us in a timely manner, numerous audit adjustments due to lack of reconciling accounts and not posting necessary adjustments timely, multiple incorrect prepared Schedules of Expenditures of Federal Awards, not properly implementing GASB 87 and 96, and unreconciled capital asset schedules,” Rehmann stated. “These issues resulted in the audit taking a significantly extended amount of time to complete.”