PRICHARD, Ala (NBC 15) — PRICHARD, Ala. — Prichard Mayor Carletta Davis pushed back against questions about the city’s finances during Thursday night’s City Council meeting, addressing an $18,000 payroll error and concerns about whether gas tax money was used to pay city employees.
Davis said an error in the city’s payroll system caused an employee to receive an overpayment of about $18,000, contributing to concerns about an overdraft in the city’s bank account last week.
“There was an error in the coding and so there was an overpayment. There was an employee that was zeroed out on our side, but the system actually still paid them. So, you know, those kind of things happen,” Davis said…