Audit makes suggestions for MRDD operation
AUSTINTOWN — A state audit performance determined that the 2-mill levy passed in the May primary election was necessary to keep the Mahoning County Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities program from running a deficit by 2009.
The results of the audit, which was requested by Mahoning County commissioners and cost the MRDD Board $67,000, were released Thursday.
A five-year financial forecast, developed as part of the audit, showed Mahoning MRDD’s deficit would have reached $16.7 million by 2011 without the revenue from the levy, said Larry Duck, MRDD superintendent.
The audit makes several recommendations to enable the Mahoning County MRDD to potentially save $570,000 a year in expenditures and increase revenue by $1 million a year.
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