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DiNapoli: OTDA Needs to Improve Oversight of Services Provided to Those in Homeless Shelters
… of local departments of social services and homeless shelter providers to make sure those entering the shelters … per year from 2018 to 2022. Each client who enters a shelter must take part in a needs assessment and the … to be completed within the first 10 days of admission to a shelter. DiNapoli’s auditors found from January 2018 to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/08/dinapoli-otda-needs-improve-oversight-services-provided-those-homeless-sheltersDiNapoli: Three Arrested in Connection With Over $1 Million Medicaid Transportation Fraud Scheme
… to the kickback scheme and will be arraigned on Sept. 19. The Otsego County Department of Probation, the Otsego … Office, the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office and the East Greenbush Police Department also assisted in the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/08/dinapoli-three-arrested-connection-over-1-million-medicaid-transportation-fraud-schemeOpinion 92-37
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FIRE DISTRICTS -- Extension (necessity to obtain approval of … Whether the extension of a fire district to add the territory of the dissolved …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-37XVI.4.D Receivables Other Than Income Taxes and Federal Grants – XVI. Financial Reporting
… Policy References: Section 40-a of the State Finance Law generally sets forth the basis for … in Section 4.C - Federal Grant Accruals of this Chapter. Loans and notes - This account includes receivables created … public benefit corporations and localities) in accordance with appropriations enacted by the State Legislature, most …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xvi/xvi4d-receivables-other-income-taxes-and-federal-grantsImplications for the Future – 2023 Financial Condition Report
… in SFY 2022-23, but will decline to $5 billion by SFY 2024-25 and approximately $100 million in the next two fiscal … funds are expected to be exhausted by the end of SFY 2024-25. Up until Federal Fiscal Year (FFY) 2020, New Yorkers … generate a large share of PIT receipts. In 2021, the top 1.6 percent of taxpayers in New York generated 44.5 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/finance/2023-fcr/implications-futureOversight of Child Protective Services
… Objective To determine whether the Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) effectively oversees local departments of social services’ investigation of reports of alleged child abuse or maltreatment, and … To determine whether the Office of Children and Family Services OCFS effectively oversees …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2023/01/24/oversight-child-protective-servicesComptroller DiNapoli and A.G. Schneiderman Announce Felony Guilty Plea of Former City of Rensselaer DPW Commissioner for Stealing Scrap Metal Proceeds
… of Public Works, for teaming with two DPW employees to divert $46,000 from the city by pocketing the cash from … Capuano pleaded guilty today in Rensselaer County Court to Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree (a Class E felony), … carries a potential prison sentence of one and a third to four years. Capuano sold the scrap metal for his personal …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/03/comptroller-dinapoli-and-ag-schneiderman-announce-felony-guilty-plea-former-city-rensselaer-dpwHomeless Outreach Services in the New York City Subway System
… Objectives To determine whether the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) and the New York City Department of Homeless Services (DHS) have … To determine whether the Metropolitan Transportation Authority MTA and the New York City Department of Homeless Services DHS have …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2020/01/16/homeless-outreach-services-new-york-city-subway-systemDiNapoli: State Education Employment Program For New Yorkers With Disabilities Falling Short
… goals of people with a disability. SED has 15 ACCES-VR district offices with 293 full-time vocational counselors and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/03/dinapoli-state-education-employment-program-new-yorkers-disabilities-falling-shortReimbursement of Homeless Shelter Providers – Westhab Inc.’s Coachman Family Center
… U.S Department of Housing and Urban Development’s point-in-time count for New York State, there were 92,091 homeless individuals in January 2019 and 91,271 homeless individuals in January 2020. The Office’s funding of shelter services is …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2022/03/01/reimbursement-homeless-shelter-providers-westhab-incs-coachman-family-centerState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Audits
… (2020-F-12) A report issued in August 2019 found that DEC had made significant progress abating identified waste … enforcement steps. In a follow-up, auditors found that DEC has implemented all three of the recommendations from the … initial report. Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC): Title V Operating Permit Program Revenues, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/09/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-audits-0Comptroller DiNapoli and Attorney General James Announce Sentencing of Former Mount Vernon Government Official
… today announced the sentencing of the former City of Mount Vernon Corporation Counsel Lawrence Porcari for abusing … a public official to engage in a scheme that defrauded the Mount Vernon Board of Water Supply of more than $300,000 to pay the personal legal expenses of the former Mount Vernon Mayor Richard Thomas and a public relations …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/09/comptroller-dinapoli-and-attorney-general-james-announce-sentencing-former-mount-vernon-governmentOpinion 91-44
… 163(2),(4), 167(2); TOWN LAW, §174(3): A member of a board of fire commissioners of a fire district may not be … expense of the district. You ask whether a member of the board of fire commissioners of a fire district may be … unpaid local elective officials. Although a member of a board of fire commissioners of a fire district is an unpaid …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-44Opinion 96-21
… the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion may no longer … or appurtenances by beach erosion control district) TOWN LAW, §§198(10-a), 202-b(2): A town board, pursuant to Town Law, §202-a, may authorize the replenishment of sand and the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-96-21Opinion 93-4
… to issue bonds to finance judgments) LOCAL FINANCE LAW, §§10.00, 11.00(a)(33-a), 21.00, 33.00, 35.00: A town … periods of probable usefulness specifically for the payment in a single fiscal year of judgments, compromised … bond resolution authorizing the issuance of bonds for the payment of judgments against the town (Local Finance Law, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-4Opinion 2006-6
… discussed in the opinion. PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES -- Leave Time Generally (authority to provide leave of absence to elected official) TOWN BOARD -- Powers and Duties (authority to provide leave of absence to town supervisor) TOWNS -- Powers and … Whether a town supervisor may be granted a leave of absence by the town board pursuant to section 92 of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2006-6Opinion 2005-2
… bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FOREIGN FIRE INSURANCE TAXES -- Particular Uses (reimbursement for expenses in operating personal vehicles) INSURANCE LAW §§9104, 9105: Foreign fire tax monies may not … a volunteer fire department may expend foreign fire insurance tax monies to reimburse active members of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2005-2Opinion 90-18
… for the acquisition of goods and commodities (see, e.g., Exley v Village of Endicott , 74 AD2d 96, 427 NYS2d 68, … for below the monetary threshold of section 103 (see e.g., Walton v Mayor , 26 App Div 76, 49 NYS 615; 1A Antieau, … the privilege against self-incrimination contained in the 5th amendment to the United States Constitution ( Lefkowitz v …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-18Opinion 88-9
… TOWN LAW, §§202-b, 215[5], 216: A town board may delegate to a separate board of commissioners of a water district … delegation, the town board must call and conduct a public hearing on the increase or improvement of facilities after … be initiated without petition, the town board shall call a hearing in the manner provided by article 12 of the Town Law, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-9DiNapoli Announces Latest Fiscal Stress Scores
… for fiscal year 2023, covering all counties and towns, 44 cities and 13 villages. This round of scoring designated … eight local governments in fiscal stress, including three cities and five towns. In March, DiNapoli announced that six … category in both fiscal years 2022 and 2023, including the cities of Albany, Little Falls, and Poughkeepsie. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/10/dinapoli-announces-latest-fiscal-stress-scores