Clarkston City Council voted 6-1 to accept its 2017 audit report and file it with the state.
Council member Scott Reynolds voted against the motion, at the Dec. 11 meeting.
Reynolds said auditor Rana Emmon’s comments to City Council in November regarding the effects of the 2014 library millage vote on city revenues were confusing.
“She presented it as a potential revenue loss,” he said. “We owe it to the public to have clarity about that.”
The three-year-old resolution includes the provision, “in future years, the city will reduce its general operating millage levy by 0.691 mills from the level that the city would otherwise have imposed.”
City Manager Jonathan Smith said the library millage issue is separate from the audit, which is required to be filed by the end of the year.
The city will ask Emmons and Julie Meredith, director of Clarkston Independence District Library, for more information about it, which will be presented to council, Smith said.
“The timeline since 1976, the ins and outs of millage rates and why – there’s quite a bit of history,” he said.

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