November 5: FY 2022 audit presentation, police officers and cameras, capital spending

Council meeting agenda includes money for a new generator, changes to ARPA spending plan, and federal and state grants for the police department

Hyattsville’s city council meeting on Monday night will include a presentation by the city’s external auditor, Robert Diss of Lindsey + Associates, an American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) spending update, acceptance of grants to hire additional police officers and purchase license plate readers, and $671,000 in capital spending.

Diss is scheduled to present the fiscal year 2022 audit, which was released in early October almost two years after the state deadline. Diss previously presented to council on the original FY 2021 audit in March 2024, before Hyattsville removed those documents from the website due to errors. The city released corrected audited financials in April 2024.

Diss’s firm, Lindsey + Associates, signed a contract to audit the city’s FY 2021, 2022, and 2023 financial statements. City treasurer Ronald Brooks indicated last week that the city was looking to change auditors again, saying that it would be in the city’s “best interest going forward beyond [FY 20]24 to reach out and hopefully find another CPA firm that can do [20]25 and [20]26 and [20]27” at a state hearing on October 30, 2024. Prior to the FY 2021 audit, the city was audited by Cohn Reznick, which stopped providing municipal audits.