New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government audits were issued.

Auditors conducted reviews of 20 adopted budgets of various counties, cities, towns and villages across the state to assess whether local officials adequately considered the impact of the pandemic on their financial operations while developing their 2021 fiscal year budgets. Below are the findings of some of the communities reviewed:

Adequacy of 2021 Budgets – Town of Riverhead (Suffolk County)

Town of Riverhead officials adequately assessed the impact of the pandemic on financial operations while developing estimates for significant revenues and expenditures in the 2021 adopted budget.

Adequacy of 2021 Budgets – City of Rome (Oneida County)

City of Oneida officials adequately assessed the impact of the pandemic on financial operations while developing estimates for significant revenues and expenditures in the 2021 adopted budget.

Adequacy of 2021 Budgets – Town of Smithtown (Suffolk County)

Town of Smithtown officials adequately assessed the impact of the pandemic on financial operations while developing estimates for significant revenues and expenditures in the 2021 adopted budget.

Bethpage Public Library – Procurement (Nassau County)

The board did not ensure goods and services were procured competitively and in accordance with the library’s policies. Therefore, taxpayers do not have assurance that the best prices were obtained. Officials did not obtain competitive quotations or consider competitive bidding for 36 of 46 claims reviewed totaling $104,572. The director presented questionable quotes to the board and did not properly seek competition for certain contracts, including contracts totaling $44,864 awarded to a company to which the director had close personal ties. Officials also did not seek competition for two of five professional service providers who were paid a total of $37,637. In addition, officials made credit card purchases totaling $16,497 without documentation of soliciting competition.

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