Watts named Garfield County finance director
Photos of new Garfield County Finance Director Jamaica Watts and new Contracts and Procurement Director Scott Henriksen.
Garfield County has elevated two of its own into important roles in both the finance and procurement departments. Jamaica Watts has taken the reins as the county’s new finance director and Scott Henriksen has been named the new procurement and contracts director. Formerly the county’s procurement and contracts director, Watts assumed the finance director role in an interim fashion in mid-April and has accepted the position full-time. Henriksen moved into the procurement director’s seat after three years as the county’s construction contracts administrator. Watts first served in local government for more than eight years at Eagle County, where she moved
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Finance earns honor for excellence in reporting
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The Garfield County Finance Department has earned the Government Finance Officers Association’s (GFOA) Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting (ACFR) for 2020. This marks the 13th straight year the finance department has been honored with the certificate by the GFOA for its annual comprehensive financial report. The award is presented to state and local governments that prepare financial documents at the highest quality, meeting all mandatory criteria. The county’s financial report was audited by McMahan and Associates, LLC, certified public accountants and consultants, out of Avon, to validate its accuracy. “This audit is to ensure that our finances
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Garfield County adopts proposed 2022 budget
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Garfield County has adopted its 2022 proposed budget, which features a balanced $94.6 million operating budget and $6.5 million in capital projects. The budget includes $7 million for discretionary grants. The county’s projected year-end fund balance is $81.9 million, a decrease from a projected $88.3 million at the end of 2021. The 2022 adopted proposed budget includes a balanced operating budget with revenues in excess of expenditures by $2.3 million and with a drawdown from capital and discretionary expenses of $8.7 million. “The estimated operating revenues exceed the proposed operating expenditures by $2.3 million,” said Lea Ann Zinnikas, interim Garfield
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