Last year, under the previous administration, the city entered into a $345,000 contract with external consultants in part to conduct an audit to find out how many accounts have business tax credits and for how much.

Through a public records request, CBS 6 obtained a draft report issued by the consultants over the summer. However, the draft report did not contain any information about tax credits. City spokesperson Michael Hinkle said he was unsure why that information was missing from the draft report but said a final report is forthcoming at some point.

CBS 6 asked Mayor Danny Avula on Wednesday about the issue.

Do you have that data? Do you know how many credits exist and what the total could be on that? And do you know when notifications will start going out to business owners?" repo

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