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Town of Plymouth – Highway Department Disbursements and Asset and Inventory Management (2024M-121)
… parts that were not compatible with any Town vehicles or equipment and 12 questionable disbursements totaling …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/03/21/town-plymouth-highway-department-disbursements-and-asset-and-inventory-managementDivision of Housing and Community Renewal Bulletin No. DH-133
… Affected Employees: Employees in the Rent Regulation Services Unit (RRSU – BU67) who meet the eligibility criteria … for members of the New York State and Local Retirement System. Additionally, the payment is not subject to union …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/housing-and-community-renewal/dh-133-district-council-37-dc37-local-1359-fy-2024-2025Division of Housing and Community Renewal Bulletin No. DH-138
… Affected Employees: Employees in the Rent Regulation Services Unit (RRSU – BU67) who meet the eligibility criteria … for members of the New York State and Local Retirement System. Additionally, the payment is not subject to union …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/housing-and-community-renewal/dh-138-district-council-37-dc37-local-1359-fy-2025-2026Former West Carthage Treasurer Charged With Stealing Thousands of Dollars From the Village
… The former Deputy Clerk-Treasurer of the Village of West Carthage, Kaytlin Ennis, was … New York State Police Superintendent James. “This former treasurer allegedly took money from the village to support … working for West Carthage in October 2018 as Deputy Clerk-Treasurer and was appointed Treasurer in January 2021 after …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/02/former-west-carthage-treasurer-charged-stealing-thousands-dollars-villageInventory Controls
… specialized equipment, as well as any digital programs or systems needed to support various job functions. To manage … be assigned to users and distributed for either onboarding or refreshing an outdated device. As devices are assigned to … with access to the floor. We found over 924 lightly used or new devices (e.g., desktop and laptop computers) that were …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2025/02/14/inventory-controlsState Contract and Payment Actions in August
… In August, the Office of the State Comptroller approved 1,631 contracts for state agencies … share of costs to reduce surf damage in Richmond County. New York State Gaming Commission $5.2 million with the SUNY …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/09/state-contract-and-payment-actions-augustDiNapoli and James Announce Guilty Plea of Former New York City Council Candidate in Straw Donation Scheme
… Alvarez pleaded guilty to Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the Second Degree, a class A misdemeanor, in … Council Majority Leader Joel Rivera. In 2013, Alvarez ran for Rivera’s seat in the 15th New York City Council District, … was unsuccessful in the Democratic primary. While running for office, Alvarez knowingly accepted straw donations …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/06/dinapoli-and-james-announce-guilty-plea-former-new-york-city-council-candidate-straw-donation-schemeDiNapoli Statement on Sentencing of Special Education Provider
… repay $418,000 paid to six of his relatives who performed little or no work for the special education programs over a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/12/dinapoli-statement-sentencing-special-education-providerState Agencies Bulletin No. 938
… Code BDA to be used for Job Action Requests of Transfer, Pay, Position or Data Change that require Budget Director’s … requires a BDA (example: Change to the Equated Grade). PAY/BDA : Used to apply a new pay rate for a position that requires a BDA. DTA/BDA : Used …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/938-new-reason-code-transactions-requiring-budget-directors-approval-bdaOpinion 89-22
… a village, the town has a responsibility to study the need for and, if necessary, to install and maintain appropriately … at the intersection. Once it adopts a traffic safety plan for the intersection, the town also has a responsibility to … devices itself. You ask whether a town is responsible for the design, installation, maintenance and upgrading of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-22Opinion 90-1
… longer represent those views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that … CONSTITUTIONAL LAW -- Gifts and Loans (gifts of moneys to public entities) LOCAL LAWS -- Municipal Funds … LAW, §27-0925; MUNICIPAL HOME RULE LAW, §10(1)(i): Where a town imposes an assessment on the gross receipts …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-90-1Opinion 91-42
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. FIRE DEPARTMENT -- Villages (authority to … 91-12, p 32). Therefore, they are not required to be held in the custody of the village treasurer pursuant to Village … Law, §119-n). As to the village's home rule power in this instance, we note that villages are authorized to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-91-42Opinion 92-35
… taxes with respect to county-owned real property liable for taxes ( cf . RPTL, §406, with respect to the taxable … , subsequent to the expiration of the interest-free period for the collection of taxes (see §924[2]), but prior to the expiration of the warrant for the collection of those taxes (see §904[1]) in accordance …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-92-35Opinion 94-1
… of the salaries of county employees who perform services for the administration and operation of a county sewer … charge to the cost of establishing a district an allowance for services rendered by salaried town employees when such … to the expense of maintaining a district an allowance for services rendered by any town officer or employee when …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-1Opinion 94-14
… to finance projects located outside the municipality for whose benefit the agency was created); (development … of any project located wholly outside the municipality for whose benefit the IDA was created. This prohibition does not apply, however, to projects for which an agency has authorized any assistance prior to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-94-14Division of Housing and Community Renewal Bulletin No. DH-121
… addition, if the employee has any subsequent time off the payroll, the increment code must be evaluated and if an … from 1001 to 2210. The agency must evaluate the employee’s Payroll Status beginning from the time of reallocation … to determine if the increment code must be updated. If the Payroll Status remained Active, Leave With Pay, or Leave of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/housing-and-community-renewal/dh-121-october-2022-district-council-37-dc-37-rent-regulationXIX.1 Overview – XIX. Project Costing (PCIP)
Projects are established in SFS to serve a multitude of business processes for State Agencies including facilitating billing to the Federal Government tracking capital spending cost and other various business needs
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xix/xix1-overviewXV.2 Fiscal Year Period – XV. End of Year
… all Business Units, including those which operate under a different fiscal year, e.g. SUNY and CUNY. Pursuant to various sections of law and to complete the execution of the financial plan for the State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xv/xv2-fiscal-year-periodXII.9.F Correcting Payments Processed Against the Incorrect Purchase Order – XII. Expenditures
… must also be corrected through the following process. In the event that funds have since lapsed, please see Chapter … Contract Expenditures . Process and Document Preparation: In the event that a Business Unit issues a payment against the wrong purchase order, and the funds in question are still active, the Business Unit must correct …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xii/xii9f-correcting-payments-processed-against-incorrect-purchase-orderXIII.10.A Refunds Owed to the State by an Employee - Using a State-Issued Check – XIII. Employee Expense Reimbursement
… Unit must follow the check cancellation procedures for joint custody bank accounts outlined in Chapter XII, … Unit must follow the check cancellation procedures for joint custody bank accounts outlined in Chapter XII …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xiii/xiii10a-refunds-owed-state-employee-using-state-issued-check