In a Sept. 8 letter to residents, Parr said her review of several years of financial records found all county revenues accounted for and spending properly documented under budgets approved by the Commissioners Court.

“There are persistent public rumors and claims that the County is ‘missing 20 million dollars’,” Parr wrote. “This is not true.”

Parr said her review covered financial statements, tax collections, spending, approved budgets and year-to-year fund balances. She said she found no evidence of missing funds, theft, fraud or embezzlement.

Her explanation centers on revenue that came in above the county’s budget estimates. According to Parr, that money was properly recorded and became part of the county’s year-end general fund balance, available for commissioners to budget in future years.

In plain terms, Parr says the county collected more than expected in some years, and unspent money carried forward. Parr also pointed to an independent audit issued in March 2026 by Pattillo, Brown & Hill, which she described as supporting the accuracy of the county’s financial statements. She said her office typically performs about 100 cash audits each year, alongside other internal checks.

The letter closes with an invitation for additional scrutiny.

“I invite any form of outside, independent forensic audit to validate the conclusions reached herein-above,” Parr wrote.

Parr’s statement follows County Judge John Wray’s Aug. 18 call for an outside audit, after a preliminary review suggested the county may have collected about $20 million more in tax revenue than it budgeted to spend over four years. Wray said officials could not yet account for where that money went, but stressed that the figures needed further review and cautioned residents against assuming wrongdoing.