Story, photos courtesy of Steve Nash - Special Contributor to BrownwoodNews.com Brown County Water Improvement District board members heard a report on the annual audit for the 2025-'26 fiscal year at their Tuesday meeting that showed expenditures were just over $1 million under budget, and revenues were $373,000 over budget.

"The report itself, we have nothing bad in it," Michael Hamby of Meritt, McClane and Hamby of Abilene told board members.

"No findings or problems. So it's a clean audit." "Things are run very well, and we didn't have any problems. We ended up with everything reconciled." Hamby said he was given a tour of the water treatment plant, which he described as "very enlightening. We like to get to see some of the things that money's been spent on," Hamby said.