Based on recent figures, the city of Yazoo City’s finances seem to show the municipality in good shape and under budget.
City Clerk Mario Edwards provided financial breakdowns over the last four months during Monday’s Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting.
The city’s revenues for the month of January totaled about $966,365. The total for four months, ending on Jan. 31, include about $2,383,628.
“That is due to more tax receipts being received than there was in December,” Edwards said, in regards to January’s total.
Edwards said departmental expenditures for the month of January totaled about $541,112. The total of the last four months, up until Jan. 31, was about $2,166,468.
“The actual departmental expenditures were (about $24,716) underbudget in expenditures for the four months,” Edwards added.
Based on the overall figures, Alderman Aubry Brent Jr. said the city’s financial shape seems to be steady.
“”If you had to give us a definition as far as our financials go, how would you say we are looking,” Brent asked. “Because what I am assessing is that we are in much better financial shape than we budgeted for.”
Mayor Diane Delaware said that has been the case for the city of Yazoo City over the last couple of years.
“It’s not unusual though,” Delaware replied. “Generally, we are always...our expenses have been for the last year and the year before that less than our budget. It’s a good thing. It’s a fantastic thing.”
Delaware also asked Edwards how the city clerk’s office was doing with managing the city’s assets.
“It is completed as far as entering all our information into our Delta Accounting System,” Edwards said. “We have to document the process and get it to our department heads to let them know the steps they need to take it moving forward, to make sure we get all our assets documented.”
Edwards said he didn’t feel “comfortable” giving a completion date of that process, but that it continues.
