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Controls Over the Collection of the Public Safety Communications Surcharge

… Purpose To determine if the Department of Taxation and Finance (Department) has … service providers (Providers) and devices subject to the Public Safety Communications Surcharge (Surcharge) are … if Providers are billing, collecting, and remitting the appropriate amount of Surcharges to which the State is …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2017/10/04/controls-over-collection-public-safety-communications-surcharge

Riverhead Central School District – Financial Operations (2025M-64)

… receive complete and accurate financial information in a timely manner to enable them to monitor financial … reports to the Board. The District had $167.7 million in general fund expenditures for the 2022-23 fiscal year. … provide the Board with complete and accurate information in a timely manner to enable them to monitor the District’s …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/12/05/riverhead-central-school-district-financial-operations-2025m-64

Steuben County – County Bridge Maintenance (S9-13-1)

… budgeted expenditures totaled $186 million in 2012. The DPW operating budget was $20.6 million for the 2012 fiscal year. The County Department of Public Works (DPW) is responsible for the maintenance and monitoring of … is directly involved with the oversight of bridges. The DPW is responsible for the maintenance and repair of …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/county/2013/07/19/steuben-county-county-bridge-maintenance-s9-13-1

Selected Aspects of Safety and Security in Subway Facilities

… point intercoms) is not always maintained as required. Only 916 of the required 1,061 preventive maintenances (PMs) …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2024/08/08/selected-aspects-safety-and-security-subway-facilities

Audit of ESDC Finds Few Measurable Results for $211 Million State Advertising Contract

… ESDC only provided details about Start-Up NY, a tax free incentive program for businesses affiliated with college … including a 17 percent increase in attendance at the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2014. Auditors noted that the …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/05/audit-esdc-finds-few-measurable-results-211-million-state-advertising-contract

New York’s Economy and Finances in the COVID-19 Era

… Department of Labor. Unemployment rates are driven not only by employment, but also by the proportion of working-age …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/covid-19-february-3-2021

New York’s Economy and Finances in the COVID-19 Era

… Economic Trends New York State Ranks Second Nationally in Jobs Lost While all states have lost employment since the … May through August. However, those gains, over 686,000 jobs, represented only 35 percent of the record-breaking loss … New York State Ranks Second Nationally in Jobs Lost …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/covid-19-october-14-2020

DiNapoli: Metro North and LIRR Lax in Monitoring Overtime Paid For With Federal Stimulus Funds

… conductors to charge overtime for tasks such as washing up for work, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli … System, did not have a requirement for conductors to sign out manually, so there was not an accurate record of … that Metro-North: Require conductors to electronically sign in and out; Monitor time and attendance records; …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/01/dinapoli-metro-north-and-lirr-lax-monitoring-overtime-paid-federal-stimulus-funds

Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits

… of claims to be approved by the board for payment. Only the total amount of claims approved by the board for …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/04/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits

Welcome New Members

… If youre a new NYSLRS member you can find handy resources in one …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/members/new-members

DiNapoli: Silencing Excessive NYC Noise a Major Challenge

… Noise complaints to New York City's 311 system rose from … 200,000 to about 384,000 between 2010 and 2015, yet few complaints are ever found to be in violation of the city's Noise Code, according to a report … Noise complaints to New York Citys 311 system rose from …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2018/01/dinapoli-silencing-excessive-nyc-noise-major-challenge

Opinion 92-1

… longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that … GENERAL MUNICIPAL LAW, §§106, 109-b: (1) A municipality does not have discretion to refuse to permit the withdrawal … time to time, may withdraw, at their option, the whole or any portion of the amount retained from payments to the …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-1

Town of Thurston – Financial Management (2013M-280)

… Purpose of Audit The purpose of our audit was to review the Town’s financial management, … 1, 2011 through December 31, 2013. Background The Town of Thurston is located in Steuben County and has … The purpose of our audit was to review the Towns financial management …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2014/07/18/town-thurston-financial-management-2013m-280

Public Service Commission

All agency audits from 2009 to present.

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/zip/public-service-commission.zip

Unclaimed Public Assistance

Sections 152-b and 360 of New York’s Social Services Law provide that any surplus funds remaining after the recovery of cost for public assistance and care shal

https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/unclaimed-funds/reporters/pdf/public-assistance.pdf

Opinion 98-1

… that the contracts authorized by section 99-r include only those by which a municipal corporation provides a … available to all individuals within the county, but rather only to a class of county residents. Accordingly, it is our …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-1

Opinion 92-9

… one hundred dollars per day. Reimbursement is authorized only when, among other circumstances: the volunteer has been … under which a non-party witness may be deposed). It is only when the individual to be deposed is neither a party nor …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-9

DiNapoli: Bedford-Stuyvesant is on the Rise

… The Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood has experienced strong population, business and job growth in recent years, according to a report released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. … The BedfordStuyvesant neighborhood has experienced strong …

https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/09/dinapoli-bedford-stuyvesant-rise