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Determination of Residency for Tuition Purposes (Follow-Up)
… Objective The objective of our follow-up was to assess the extent of implementation, as of October 2024, of the four recommendations included in our … The objective of our followup was to assess the extent of implementation as of October 2024 of the four …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2025/02/11/determination-residency-tuition-purposes-followDiNapoli: Audit Finds NYC Needs to Improve Income Verification and Enforcement at Mitchell-Lama Housing
… City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has not done enough to verify that residents are … buildings, unfortunately, that isn’t the case. HPD needs do a better job of ensuring that apartments are … maximum limit by 25 percent or more, the resident must get HPD approval to stay or HPD can remove them. Of 191 sampled …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/03/dinapoli-audit-finds-nyc-needs-improve-income-verification-and-enforcement-mitchell-lama-housingDiNapoli: Homeless New Yorkers Relying on CityFHEPS Face Significant Delays for Permanent Housing
… leading to significant delays in finding permanent housing for homeless people and those at risk of homelessness, … to $365 million. The program’s budget is $816 million for FY 2024. The audit reviewed the program from July 2019 … of shelter exits was found to be unreliable. Case files for 57 households identified in exit reports as having left …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/10/dinapoli-homeless-new-yorkers-relying-cityfheps-face-significant-delays-permanent-housingDiNapoli: Nurse Hiring Improves but Temp Staff Costs Remain Elevated at NYC Health + Hospitals
… are still elevated. Further hiring and training are needed for H+H to achieve its fiscal targets and provide quality … increased permanent nurse hiring, it will take some time for H+H to train newly hired nurses, and temporary staff … Nationally, nursing school enrollment is not growing fast enough to meet workforce growth projections of 195,000 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/11/dinapoli-nurse-hiring-improves-temp-staff-costs-remain-elevated-nyc-health-hospitalsReal Property Portfolio
… oversees real estate development, subsidiaries, design and construction, and environmental planning. Most of ESD’s … (Downstate, Bayview, and Lincoln), are located in or near New York City and, according to ESD, have potential for … and implement policies directing ESD and subsidiary management to provide sufficiently detailed information for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2024/08/21/real-property-portfolioControls Over the Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative
… Objectives To determine whether the Office of Temporary and Disability … Empire State Supportive Housing Initiative are sufficient to ensure high-risk target populations’ needs are met and … To determine whether the Office of Temporary and Disability …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2024/08/08/controls-over-empire-state-supportive-housing-initiativeDiNapoli: Troy Housing Authority IT Worker Arrested for Secretly Running Private Business on Housing Authority Time
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, Rensselaer County District Attorney Mary Pat Donnelly, and New York State Police Superintendent Steven G. James … of a former Troy Housing Authority information technology (IT) employee for the alleged theft of $7,089 in wages. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/10/dinapoli-troy-housing-authority-it-worker-arrested-secretly-running-private-business-housingOpinion 91-35
… You state that the sergeant is a permanent full-time officer and, of those subordinates who are members of a … the base salary of the permanent full-time police officer who is a member of a negotiating unit and who is the … of the increase received by such next subordinate police officer." As noted in previous opinions of this Office, the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-35Audit Recommends Improvements to NFTA Capital Planning
… assets are not in a state of good repair and it is unclear how the authority prioritizes capital improvements, according to an audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. “NFTA has many … assets are not in a state of good repair and it is unclear how the authority prioritizes capital improvements according …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/04/audit-recommends-improvements-nfta-capital-planningOpinion 90-62
… highway superintendent). Section 36 provides that any town officer, except a town justice, may be removed from office by … Attorney General to maintain an action against a public officer who has performed an act which by law works a … as dicta, that the continued incapacitation of a public officer due to illness, with the consequent inability to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-62Opinion 94-13
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The … may monitor compliance with the employment restriction of section 207-a(6) by requiring disabled firefighters to … firefighters receiving payments pursuant to section 207a2 of the General Municipal Law to certify periodically that …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-13DiNapoli: Former Marbletown Fire Chief Arrested for Stealing Over $100K From Department
… Wayne County District Attorney Christine Callanan and the New York State Police announced William Storrs, a former fire … from the Marbletown Volunteer Fire Department in Newark, New York. “William Storrs was elected fire chief after … and used them for his own personal needs. Thanks to the New York State Police and DA Callanan, Storrs will be brought …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/02/dinapoli-former-marbletown-fire-chief-arrested-stealing-over-100k-departmentState Agencies Bulletin No. 2320
… of New York State, Inc. (University Police, Encon Police, Park Police, and Forest Rangers) in Bargaining Unit 31. … of New York State Inc University Police Encon Police Park Police and Forest Rangers in Bargaining Unit 31 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/2320-police-benevolent-association-new-york-state-inc-pbanys-dues-increaseOpinion 89-63
… views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues … PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITIES -- Fees (exemption from court fees) PUBLIC HOUSING LAW, §52(1): A municipal housing … municipal housing authority is exempt from the payment of court fees when it is a litigant in Supreme Court a County …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-63Opinion 89-6
… This opinion represents the views of the Office of the State Comptroller at the time it was rendered. The opinion … Law, §796). Our research has determined that the New York statutes contain no special provision pertaining to the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-6DiNapoli Report Finds Medicaid Costs for Treating Asthma Rising
… Medicaid expenditures rose more than 26 percent in the last five years, as the state's overall annual asthma … struggling with this disease." Roughly 1.7 million people in New York suffer from asthma, according to estimates by the … $55 billion Medicaid program enrolls approximately one in four New York state residents, including 559,000 diagnosed …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/04/dinapoli-report-finds-medicaid-costs-treating-asthma-risingOpinion 89-29
… A village may acquire a parcel of property to exchange for property owned by a federal agency and needed for village road building where the federal agency desires an … the Interior, a village may acquire a parcel of property for the purpose of exchanging it for Parks Service property …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-29Opinion 89-25
… or improvement district (GML, §§119, 119-a). Article 5-D does not, however, define "capacity in excess of its own …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-25Unified Court System Bulletin No. UCS-359
… and to provide instructions for reporting transactions in Administration Pay Period 20C. Affected Employees: Judges and … year. Effective Dates: The adjustments will be paid in Administration Pay Period 20C, paychecks dated 12/31/2025. … will be available for agency review on 12/12/2025 (after Administration Pay Period 19C, paychecks dated 12/17/2025 are …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/unified-court-system/ucs-359-2025-year-end-adjustment-judges-and-justices-unified-courtDiNapoli: Springport Town Clerk Pleads Guilty After Faking Retirement Benefits
… from receiving extra money she did not earn. "This case is a warning to any public employee who falsifies retirement …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/08/dinapoli-springport-town-clerk-pleads-guilty-after-faking-retirement-benefits