<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4HTnK5_1H1oTJaf00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4HTnK5_1H1oTJaf00" width="1024" height="576" ><figcaption>Pictured is a 2027 Mack Pinnacle dump truck recently purchased by the Brown County Water Improvement District, which was on display during Tuesday’s meeting</figcaption></figure>Story, photos courtesy of Steve Nash – Special Contributor to BrownwoodNews.comBrown County Water Improvement District board members heard a report on the annual audit for the 2025-’26 fiscal year at their Tuesday meeting that showed expenditures were just over $1 million under budget, and revenues were $373,000 over budget.“The report itself, we have nothing bad in it,” Michael Hamby of Meritt, McClane and Hamby of Abilene told board members. “No findings or problems. So it’s a clean audit.”“Things are run very well, and we didn’t have any problems. We ended up with everything reconciled.”Hamby said he was given a tour of the water treatment plant, which he described as “very enlightening. We like to get to see some of the things that money’s been spent on,” Hamby said.Commenting on the audit report, water district general manager John Allen said, “no findings at all, which is what you’re trying to get. No recommendations for anything to change. So my ladies at the office here do a really great job keeping up with all of that.”In other business, the board approved Allen’s recommendation to pre-pay for equipment needed for the water treatment expansion project to lock in the price. The cost is $745,358, and without locking in the price, the price will increase, Allen said.“We have this money in reserve,” Allen said. It’s going to come off what we have to borrow later on to do the project. And we won’t be paying interest and everything else on it.”• Agreed to keep water irrigation rates the same as the previous year.• Allen reported on lake conditions. “We’re 2.3 feet below spillway,” Allen said. “We’ve had all this rain, but it’s been such a slow rain. We need a good hard rain to run some water and get it in the lake. And we’re primed for it right now.Even a one-inch rain up on the watershed would be great. But we haven’t got it yet.”Allen concluded by saying the lake is at 89.1 percent capacity, “which is in great shape.”Also at Tuesday’s meeting, the water district’s brand new Mack dump truck was parked behind the water district building, and Allen invited people at the meeting to go look at the truck.“We traded in a 2006 model for it,” Allen said. “That is a 2027 Mack Pinnacle dump truck. We hope to get at least 20 years out of this one also. We just got stickers on it (Tuesday), our logos and everything on the doors. So we will put it in service very soon.“Our maintenance crew uses that to haul gravel, dirt, trees, just anything our maintenance department has to do. We have a smaller six yard dump truck and we have the large one like that.The water district took possession of the truck, which cost about $209,000, about two weeks ago,” Allen said.</div></body>

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Story, photos courtesy of Steve Nash – Special Contributor to BrownwoodNews.com. Brown County Water Improvement District board members heard a report on the annual audit for the 2025-’26 fiscal year at their Tuesday meeting that showed expenditures were just over $1 million under budget, and revenues were $373,000 over budget.

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Story, photos courtesy of Steve Nash – Special Contributor to BrownwoodNews.com. Brown County Water Improvement District board members heard a report on th

Water improvement district receives ‘clean’ audit report

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