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State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits

… today the following audits have been issued. Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS): Oversight of Residential Domestic Violence Programs (Follow-Up) … in April 2018 determined, based on the amount and quality of information provided by OCFS, that the agency did not …

DiNapoli: NYC Transit Must Ensure Cameras and Security Equipment Are Maintained and in Working Order

… system, to avoid future unexpected failures, an audit from State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found. “The MTA’s … have. They also found that Transit had no documentation to show that maintenance was completed for 67% of the work that … cameras. Transit uses a number of alarms, cameras and ID card readers to warn it if anyone enters a subway tunnel at …

Practices Used by the Transit Adjudication Bureau to Collect and Account for Fines and Fees

… Bureau (TAB) is an administrative tribunal established by State legislation in July 1985 to provide a forum for … who do not pay their fines. According to data provided by TAB officials, TAB had approximately 1.7 million summonses …

Security Self-Assessment: Questions – Information Technology Governance

State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal & School Audits

… tax proceeds in accordance with insurance law and relevant case law because the bookkeeper miscalculated the allocation …

XII.8.A Workflow in the Accounts Payable Module – XII. Expenditures

… have the ability to take the following actions: Hold – prevents users from taking action on a voucher until the user … supervised the services provided by a vendor. If the user does not have an approver role, the Business Unit can insert … Pushback functions, the workflow is restarted and the SFS does not automatically reinsert the Ad Hoc Reviewer or Ad Hoc …

Purchasing Practices at the Linden Plaza Mitchell-Lama Housing Development (Follow-Up)

To determine the extent of implementation of the recommendations in our initial audit report Purchsing Practices at the Linden Plaza MitchellLama Housing Development Report 2017N5

Empire BlueCross BlueShield – Controls Over Payments for Special Items

… range of services including, but not limited to, hospital services, office visits, home care, medical equipment, mental health services, and prescription drugs. The State … rate schedules for the payment of inpatient and outpatient hospital services. Empire’s hospital contracts also allow …

DiNapoli: Thruway Authority Owed More Than $275 Million in Unpaid Tolls and Fees

… its in-house customer service employees. Registration Suspension Program The Thruway can ask the Department of … registration suspensions there. The Thruway halted the suspension program in January 2018 as cashless tolling was … due accounts, owing $288.4 million, that were eligible for suspension. Of these, 49,740 customers were persistent …

DiNapoli: Audit Reveals Questionable Financial Decisions, Lack of Transparency in Hempstead School District

… entitled to for more than four months. On Nov. 1, 2012, the board appointed Johnson as interim … salary increased to $210,000 per year, which is equal to 26 biweekly payments of about $8,077. However, her biweekly …

Area #3 – Computer Hardware, Software, and Data Inventories – Information Technology Governance

… State Education Law and Regulations require 9 that no student data be shared with third parties without an … with federal and State laws. Without awareness of the student data that exists, schools cannot guarantee compliance …

DiNapoli: Monroe County Failed to Monitor Contractor Operating Golf Courses, Costing Taxpayers

… $300,000 for a substantial clubhouse project at one course, and to make $100,000 in other capital improvements … were in disrepair, a partially submerged golf cart in a course pond, and downed trees. Monroe County also failed to … report reconciling revenues and activities for each golf course. Instead, Tindale remitted payments to the county each …

Opinion 91-6

… consolidations, codifications or restatements of pre-1953 special or local laws applicable to a local … as expressly provided by the State Legislature or by a pre-1953 local law, it is our opinion that a local government …

State Audits Issued in the Last 60 Days

… View state audits issued in the last 60 days …

Practices Used by the Transit Adjudication Bureau to Collect and Account for Fines and Fees (Follow-Up)

… information services, telephone collections, and judgment enforcement. The current contract, valued at $13.2 …

DiNapoli: Former Hempstead School Official and Local Restauranteur Indicted in Kickback Scheme

… Maria Caliendo, the owner of food service providers Smart Starts NY, Inc. (Smart Starts), and Prince Umberto’s restaurant in Franklin Square, … secure lucrative contracts for Caliendo’s company, Smart Starts, to provide prepackaged breakfast meals for Hempstead …

VII.3.A AP Adjustment Voucher Preparation – VII. State Revenues and Appropriated Loan Receivables

… in an inaccurate 1099 being issued to the vendor. Supplier ID/Vendor ID The supplier ID should match the original … level in SFS, agencies should send their checks to DTF – Treasury to be deposited to the General Checking Account (GCA), see:  Section 3.B – AP Adjustment Voucher – Treasury Requirements  of this Chapter for more information. …

Opinion 88-10

… Shell Oil v Tax Commission , 91 AD2d 81, 458 NYS2d 938; Mobil Oil v Tully , 639 F2d 912, vacated on other grounds, … the contract and not by this Office. March 1, 1988 Charles E. Drake, Esq., County Attorney County of Hamilton …

IX.8.D Electronic Refund Payments to the U.S. HHS – IX. Federal Grants

… procedures that follow pertain to the refund or return of federal funds to the US HHS due to: Excessive cash balances … (Expenditure Adjustment Journal transactions crediting federal funds); Any other accounting adjustment that results in an increase in federal fund cash that will not be immediately disbursed for …

DiNapoli: NYC Vehicle Fleet Meeting Goals on Fuel Efficiency but Aging Emergency and Sanitation Trucks Often Sidelined for Repairs

… city operates a fleet of about 30,100 vehicles (owned and rented) and motorized equipment maintained and operated by … parts and supplies, provided a technical manual for all agencies, and created a fleet inventory management …