FPUD looks at agenda full of repairs and improvement projects

The Fallbrook Public Utility District approved several expenditures during its most recent meeting Jan. 23, most of them repairs or redesigns to various projects.

The board unanimously approved a professional services agreement not to exceed $60,000 with Platinum Consulting Group to review and improve its financial accounting system, which is in need of an overhaul, according to chief financial officer David Shank.

Shank wrote in a staff report that there were several fixes that needed to be made to the district’s financial accounting, one of which is that the current system requires unnecessa...