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Town of Rutland – Water and Sewer Charges (2025M-30)
… [read complete report – pdf] Audit Objective Determine whether the Town of … and sewer charges. We identified a total of $8,823 in billing errors that resulted in $4,634 in overcharges to … and $4,189 in undercharges. Of 81 customer account billing adjustments tested for 2022 and 2023, 80 adjustments …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/06/13/town-rutland-water-and-sewer-charges-2025m-30Livonia Central School District – Conflict of Interest (2024M-89)
… authorize or approve; authorize or approve payment under the contract; audit bills or claims under the contract; … company entered into six contracts with the District while he was a Board member which resulted in payments totaling … understand the steps necessary to disclose a conflict and what constituted a prohibited conflict of interest. Had such …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2025/06/20/livonia-central-school-district-conflict-interest-2024m-89Town of Lodi – Town Hall Capital Project (2024M-130)
… provide an itemized Project budget or detailed timeline, for the renovation of a church into the new Town Hall and food pantry. The Board did not oversee the competitive bidding process for the pantry portion of the Project. The Board and its …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2025/07/11/town-lodi-town-hall-capital-project-2024m-130Village of Penn Yan – Water Treatment Plant Overtime (2025M-6)
… through November 22, 2024, we determined that: The WTP operators worked three different schedules that incurred … Director did not approve overtime hours prior to the WTP operators working overtime as required by the Village’s …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/village/2025/07/25/village-penn-yan-water-treatment-plant-overtime-2025m-6Village of Lake George – Records and Reports (2024M-82)
… – pdf] Audit Objective Determine whether the Village of Lake George (Village) Treasurer maintained complete, … did not properly fulfill their responsibilities of maintaining complete, accurate and timely records, and the Board did not provide adequate oversight of the maintenance of the accounting records. As a result, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/village/2024/09/13/village-lake-george-records-and-reports-2024m-82Village of Catskill – Accounting Records and Reports (2024M-66)
… and did not provide timely, accurate or adequate reports to the Village Board (Board).As a result, the transparency of … $1.7 million and did not: Reconcile bank balances to the general ledger cash balances. As a result, there is a … errors and/or irregularities could occur. Properly account for three bank account balances totaling $1.1 million at May …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/village/2024/09/27/village-catskill-accounting-records-and-reports-2024m-66Town of Pittsfield – Supervisor's Records and Reports (2024M-80)
… report – pdf] Audit Objective Determine whether the Town of Pittsfield’s (Town) Town Supervisor (Supervisor) … annual audit requirement and provided adequate oversight of the Town’s financial operations, the accounting and … can help improve the completeness, accuracy and timeliness of the Town’s accounting records and reports. Town officials …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2024/09/27/town-pittsfield-supervisors-records-and-reports-2024m-80Town of Albion – Supervisor’s Records and Reports (2024M-111)
… For example, the reports did not include $551,134 of real property tax revenue and a $109,000 expenditure for a storage …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2024/11/08/town-albion-supervisors-records-and-reports-2024m-111Charter School of Educational Excellence – Information Technology (2023M-174)
… (PPSI) and personally identifiable information (PII), and that the School could suffer a serious interruption …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/charter-school/2024/06/07/charter-school-educational-excellence-information-technology-2023m-174Village of Dolgeville – Treasurer’s Records and Reports (2024M-28)
… balances. Provide adequate budget status and balance sheet reports to the Board each month. Prepare and file the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/village/2024/07/03/village-dolgeville-treasurers-records-and-reports-2024m-28Town of Lancaster – Town Supervisor's Financial Duties (2024M-32)
… work performed by the firm he improperly contracted with to act as Director of Finance, resulting in incomplete and … Monthly financial reports were not generated and provided to the Town Board (Board) and bank reconciliations were not … access to the financial system and online banking to a third party and by not ensuring proper segregation of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/town/2024/07/12/town-lancaster-town-supervisors-financial-duties-2024m-32City of Rensselaer – Accounting Records and Reports (2023M-26)
… and $2.2 million, and transactions were not entered in a timely manner. Bank reconciliations were not prepared in a timely manner or clearly documented and discrepancies, … not explained. Independent audit reports were not issued in a timely manner and identified deficiencies in internal …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/city/2024/08/02/city-rensselaer-accounting-records-and-reports-2023m-26Village of Riverside – Clerk-Treasurers' Records and Reports (2024M-107)
… of Taxation and Finance (NYSDTF), which could result in the Village paying fines and penalties. Recommendations … complete and accurate accounting records and reports in a timely manner. Village officials generally agreed with … action. Appendix B includes our comment on an issue raised in the response. …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/village/2024/11/27/village-riverside-clerk-treasurers-records-and-reports-2024m-107Village of Northville – Joint Youth Activity Program (2016M-339)
… of our audit was to determine if the Village’s joint youth activity’s financial activities were properly recorded … June 1, 2014 through May 31, 2016. Background The joint youth activity program (Program) has been established by the Village of Northville to operate youth development activities for children residing in the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/joint-activity/2016/12/09/village-northville-joint-youth-activity-program-2016m-339Madison-Oneida Board of Cooperative Educational Services – Payroll (2017M-239)
… Madison-Oneida Board of Cooperative Educational Services is governed by a Board of Education (Board) which is composed of nine members elected by the boards of … access rights of payroll system users to ensure access is limited to authorized job duties. Ensure that a payroll …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/boces/2017/12/29/madison-oneida-board-cooperative-educational-services-payroll-2017m-239XII.4.D Certification of Internal Controls over the Payment Process – XII. Expenditures
… requirement. Process and Document Preparation: Annually, each agency head must email a signed certification form to … head should submit a separate certification form for each agency. Please refer to the Internal Controls … , which includes the Voucher Authorizer Certification, each agency will be required to audit the effectiveness of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xii/xii4d-certification-internal-controls-over-payment-processDiNapoli Issues Report on Transparency of Village Fiscal Activities
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office released a … required to file an annual financial report (AFR) with the State Comptroller’s office 60 to 120 days after the close of … mismanagement.” For fiscal year 2023, 246 (46%) of the state’s 532 villages filed their AFR with the State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/12/dinapoli-issues-report-transparency-village-fiscal-activitiesDiNapoli: SED Oversight of Career Training Programs Falling Short
… grants, but does not perform routine visits to program locations or monitor program-level performance. As a result, … while also accommodating CTE courses. The majority of locations (78 percent) visited said that attracting, hiring and retaining certified teachers with industry …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/12/dinapoli-sed-oversight-career-training-programs-falling-shortDiNapoli Op-Ed: The Double-Edged Sword of Pandemic-Driven Technological Acceleration
… year’s widespread introduction of generative AI tools that can create new content such as text and images, it appears … the pandemic – illustrated the unintentional harm that can be caused by government AI systems designed or … and minimizes the potential for disparate impacts. I encourage my colleagues in government to join me in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/06/dinapoli-op-ed-double-edged-sword-pandemic-driven-technological-accelerationDiNapoli Report Identifies Trends in Causes of Subway Delays
… the office that it revised how it classified delays for 2024 to assign more delays to specific incidents. Its new … which are incidents that lead to 50 or more delays. For this reason, this report focuses on comparisons of 2019 … incidents were caused by people on the tracks or stoppages for a police/medical response in 2023, 32% more than the 145 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/09/dinapoli-report-identifies-trends-causes-subway-delays