BLOOMFIELD — Stoddard County officials will soon be seeking bids to handle the county’s financial accounts for the next four years.
Commissioners approved for County Clerk Cecil Weeks to draft bid specs for the county’s financial accounts.
Once drafted, Weeks said the bid request will be posted in the newspaper and letters will be sent to local banks.
Once the bid request is posted, it must run for a minimum of 21 days.
Commissioners also looked into seeking bids for county audit services for 2017-18.
According to Weeks, state statutes require the county to have an audit if the previous two years had expenditures of grant money over $750,000.
“We didn’t last year, but we did in 2017,” he said, which totaled just over $1 million in grant money.
The item was tabled until next week’s meeting to research which years were awarded during the last bid process.
The county will receive its state audit next year as well.
The next Stoddard County Commission meeting will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, March 25 in the commission chambers in Bloomfield.