Audit shows progress, $170,000 cash gap unresolved

Finance Committee · Meeting of October 27, 2026

Winchendon's fiscal 2025 audit still showed a $170,000 bank reconciliation variance, down from the prior year. Auditor Tony Rosali presented the results to a joint meeting of the Finance Committee, Select Board and School Committee. The presentation also flagged a $1.7 million variance between collector records and the ledger, $1.1 million of it water and sewer, and a $430,000 ambulance balance nobody could explain.

A speaker said, "I'm certainly not suggesting there's 1.7 million dollars missing." Town officials said much has been cleaned up in fiscal 2026, including $70,000 collected in tax title. A school official said Memorial bids are due Nov. 24.

In the full story:

• WINCHENDON — October 27, 2026 —
• Opening and introductions
• The audit's scope
• Cash and bank reconciliations
• Receivable management
• Town accountant and school accounts
• Observations
• Public comment and comments from the bodies
• Building project update
• Procedural steps
• Implications
• Who Was There
• Organizations And Documents Referenced
• The complete report: 2,007 words

Source: the Finance Committee meeting of October 27, 2026, reported from the official video recording and transcript.

Checked against the record: before publication this article was automatically compared with the meeting transcript.