Mifflinburg Seeks 2025 Audit Proposals; RFP Posted Missing Contact Details

The Borough of Mifflinburg posted a Request for Proposals seeking an auditor for the 2025 audit and posted the announcement on January 29, 2026. The borough’s notice states, "The Borough of Mifflinburg announced it is accepting proposals from qualified certified public accounting firms to perform the 2025 audit." That posting, however, leaves key logistical information out of the public notice.

The RFP text supplied to this reporter ends mid-sentence: "Interested firms are instructed to review the RFP posted on the borough’s website and contact" and then stops. The truncated instruction provides no contact name, phone number, email address, submission deadline, or instructions on how to deliver proposals. That omission creates uncertainty for accounting firms that specialize in municipal audits and for residents who monitor town finances.

The audit RFP appears alongside several municipal planning and fiscal documents on the borough’s site, including a "2025 Preliminary Electric Rate Study," a "2026 Tentative Budget," a "November 18, 2025 Planning Commission Agenda," and a "Mifflinburg Parks Master Plan." The electric-rate material includes the borough’s language that rates should be the "minimum required to meet the needs of operations. Borough Council has also been very careful to ensure that the rates remain competitive with other area suppliers to ensure that the costs of living and doing business in Mifflinburg remain comparable to other communities in our area." Those documents together frame the fiscal context the auditor would likely review, but the RFP does not, in the posted excerpt, define the audit scope or identify which funds or projects will be emphasized.

Beyond bookkeeping, the audit matters to ratepayers and taxpayers because municipal audits affect budget transparency, grant compliance, and long-term planning. The borough’s communications in the same document set also highlight community services: "The Greater Susquehanna Valley YMCA stepped in this summer to help meet vital community needs in Mifflinburg, ensuring local children had access to healthy meals and safe recreation opportunities." Program delivery and related fiscal arrangements are typical audit areas where residents expect clear accounting.

What the RFP did not include is important and specific. The posted text omits the submission deadline, required proposal format, whether cost proposals must be included, evaluation criteria, the expected contract period, and the contact person or office for questions. Those items are standard in municipal RFPs and will need to be obtained from the full RFP or borough staff before firms can respond and before the public can judge procurement transparency.

For now, the immediate impact is procedural: qualified accounting firms cannot confidently prepare or submit proposals until the borough provides the missing details, and residents seeking assurance about budget and utility rate oversight must wait for the complete document or a clarification from Borough of Mifflinburg officials. Expect the borough to update the posting or to publish a complete RFP with submission instructions; until then, the next steps for interested parties are to request the full RFP and monitor upcoming council and budget meetings for any related timelines.