Slatington Borough Manager Judith Danko, continues to chip away at the long laundry list of deficiencies of the preliminary financial audit conducted earlier in the summer.

Duringa recent council meeting, Danko gave a manager's report to the board that included details of the audit corrections.On the list of items needed, $16,283 in employee pensions has been processed."Four years of pensions have been rectified," she said."Once the value of lost earnings on pensions is learned, they will be transferred, then the pension should be made whole," said Danko, who projected the task to be complete by the start of September."I'm proud of the progress. We had to sit and calculate everyone's payroll for four years for the pensions. It's been a tough week," she said."We will go back to 2013-16. The money will then be transferred and we can move forward to reconcile the 2017 list completely to have all accounts whole," she said.The mislabeled funds and various other noncompliance issues in the initial audit date back over three years with a repeat issue being water sewer garbage funds and Social Security and Medicare funds that were not deposited into the correct corresponding accounts.According to the report, funds were deposited into the general fund and were transferred late or not at all to proper accounts.Danko said at present all the borough's accounts are up to date with the exception of the general fund."All the deposits flowed through the general fund and didn't go to sewer/water or other accounts. Then when the money was supposed to be put back, the money wasn't taken from the proper accounts. We will work to rectify that in the future," she said.Danko also informed the board about two separate borough employees who are owed up to $2,000, "because it was never reconciled, what was due and what was paychecks. As we dig deeper we find other things," she said.Campbell, Rappold and Yurasits LLP, the borough's auditing company since 2012, handed over a list 14 deficient items that included deposits not being delivered to proper accounts."In 2013, '14, '15, audit deficiencies are in the report but never corrected. So you're saying those balances were not correct? The balances in the 2013 report, those numbers were not correct," Councilman Bryon Reed said."I can't answer for them. The $107,000 due from the fire account was marked as paid but wasn't for the past three years. I'm only going by what they're telling me," she said."Every year the audit report marked the loan as paid, but it wasn't. We're very close to finalizing fixes, but we need to have a deep discussion," Danko said."I put my trust in Campbell all these years," Reed said."That's the reason we hired a bookkeeper, to find this. The office wasn't being kept up," said council President David Schnaars."Campbell shouldn't be correcting their own work and conducting the audit," Danko said.Danko said there is not yet a project date for when the fixes will be finalized.A final report will be filed in early fall of this year."I believe this year's budget and next year will be a trial and error. The following year we'll be able to really see how things are going," she said.In the manager's report, Danko told the board about the list of rental properties that are in noncompliance."We are updating the list and sending new letters for the issues," she said.Danko said, the borough is also investigating several residential water bills that have gone unpaid."We are reviewing the water shut-offs for delinquent invoices. There are residents that were shut off long ago for not paying their bill, but somehow the water was turned back on," she said."We will look into theft of services," she said.Danko also informed the board a complete inspection of all borough buildings has been completed along with the execution of the Pennsylvanian state grant for the new digester at the sewer treatment plant.