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Mental Health: Inpatient Service Capacity
In recent years, the prevalence and estimated numbers of New Yorkers living with any mental illness have increased, according to the State Office of Mental Health (OMH) and the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/reports/pdf/mental-health-inpatient-service-capacity.pdfChild Care Stabilization Grants (2022-S-44)
To determine whether the Office of Children and Family Services has established and maintained adequate internal controls to enable it to oversee and monitor child care stabilization grantees to ensure proper use of child care stabilization grant funds; and to determine whether the grants met ...
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/2022-S-44.pdfMaternal Health (2022-S-25)
To determine whether the Department of Health (DOH) has implemented recommendations with the goal of reducing maternal mortality and morbidity in New York State; and whether DOH is effectively monitoring related actions and outcomes to ensure rates of maternal mortality and morbidity are improving.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2024-22s25.pdfComplaint Processing (2020-N-9)
To determine if the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB) has an appropriate and sufficiently documented basis for the complaints referred to the New York City Police Department (NYPD) and other agencies and for truncated complaints, and if CCRB is conducting investigations in ...
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2023-20n9.pdfDiNapoli: Nearly 1 in 3 Students Were Chronically Absent From School
… districts had a chronic absenteeism rate of 33%, a 10.1 point increase from SY 2018-2019, and high-need … urban-suburban districts had a rate of 40.9%, an 8.6 point increase from SY 2018-2019. Low-need districts had a … remote learning when the pandemic affected daily life in March 2020, and through SY 2020-21. As a result, these school …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/10/dinapoli-nearly-1-3-students-were-chronically-absent-schoolCaucus 2026: Important Information for New Yorkers
… Maternal Health, July 2024 Moving in the Wrong Direction: Traffic Fatalities are Growing in NYS, June 2024 The Growing … February 2024 NYC: Housing NYC HPD, Physical and Financial Conditions at Selected Mitchell-Lama Developments, January … Complaints, December 2025 DHCR, Physical and Financial Conditions at Selected Mitchell-Lama Developments, June 2023 …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/caucus2026DiNapoli Audit: Pre-K Special Education Provider Spent $2.5 Million in Unallowed Expenses
… can recover the misspent funds.” Shared staff at Starting Point Services divided their hours between the school’s … related services program. The state reimburses Starting Point, and other providers, for the cost of their SEIT … 18, 2013. This Law requires the Comptroller to audit, by March 31, 2018, the expenses reported to SED by preschool …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/12/dinapoli-audit-pre-k-special-education-provider-spent-25-million-unallowed-expensesHomeless Services Housing Needs Assessment (2021-S-23) 180-Day Response
To determine if the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance’s initial Needs Assessments and Individual Living Plans are completed timely and if clients are receiving services needed to transition to permanent housing.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2023-21s23-response.pdfHomeless Services Housing Needs Assessment (2021-S-23)
To determine if the Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance’s initial Needs Assessments and Individual Living Plans are completed timely and if clients are receiving services needed to transition to permanent housing.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2023-21s23.pdfEfforts to Collect Delinquent Taxes (2019-S-61) 180-Day Response
To determine if the Department of Taxation and Finance is making adequate efforts, in accordance with Department policy, to collect unpaid amounts—including taxes, interest, penalties, and fees—from delinquent individual and business taxpayers.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2021-19s61-response.pdfEfforts to Collect Delinquent Taxes (2019-S-61)
To determine if the Department of Taxation and Finance is making adequate efforts, in accordance with Department policy, to collect unpaid amounts—including taxes, interest, penalties, and fees—from delinquent individual and business taxpayers.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/state-agencies/audits/pdf/sga-2021-19s61.pdfValley Central School District – Information Technology (2020M-154)
Determine whether the Board of Education (Board) and Valley Central School District (District) officials ensured the District’s information technology (IT) systems were adequately secured and protected against unauthorized use, access and loss.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/audits/2021/pdf/valley-central-2020-154.pdfOpinion 88-7
… superseded. You ask whether 4 Opns St Comp, 1948, p 315 (File No. 3046) reflects the current position of this Office. … raised therefor and not from the surplus bond proceeds. File No. 3046 relied in part on section 165.00 of the Local … during the current year. Based upon these provisions, File No. 3046 concluded that: ". . . there is grave doubt …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-7IX.8.D Electronic Refund Payments to the U.S. HHS – IX. Federal Grants
… for draws and returns via the Payment Management System (“PMS”) draw system. Please note that while an agency might … in the applicable draw system. If the award is open in the PMS, and OSC draws on your behalf, this return will be processed through PMS, and if the intent is for a refund to be issued separate …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/chapter-ix/ix8d-electronic-refund-payments-us-hhsXI-A.6 Auto-Sourcing Purchase Orders – XI-A. Purchasing
… creating a purchase order (PO) from an approved contract release or purchase requisition. This section does not apply … needed to generate 11 additional POs. To stage a contract release, the Contract Processor will access the release link on the contract header and define the contract …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xia/xi-a6-auto-sourcing-purchase-ordersSUNY Bulletin No. SU-337
… included in the calculation of the overtime. In the past, manual calculations were required to include these earnings … in the total amount of overtime monies paid. To alleviate manual calculations that pose a risk and to allow for … IIO, ISO or IWO are eligible to receive an overtime adjustment using one of the new earnings codes. OSC Actions …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-university-new-york/su-337-change-overtime-processing-procedures-suny-employeesSUNY Bulletin No. SU-181
… for processing stipend increases for Graduate Students in GSEU. Affected Employees SUNY employees represented by the … criteria Effective Date(s) Stipend increases may be paid in Pay Period 16L, paychecks dated 11/23/11 Background … for a 3% stipend increase effective 10/4/07 for employees in Bargaining Unit 28. To be eligible for the stipend …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-university-new-york/su-181-october-1-2007-and-october-1-2008-stipend-increasesXII.5.E Processing Vouchers Against a Purchase Order – XII. Expenditures
… order, the Business Unit must create and process a voucher that references the purchase order to liquidate the … order in the SFS. The SFS will automatically create a voucher in the Accounts Payable module from the electronic invoice. When the voucher is processed it will liquidate the funds encumbered …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/chapter-xii/xii5e-processing-vouchers-against-purchase-orderOpinion 95-10
… (to maintain cemetery) WORDS AND PHRASES -- "Around" (meaning of for purposes of Town Law, §291) TOWN LAW, §291: … of chapter 386 discloses no discussion of the intended meaning of the provision. No discussion of this provision … in their ordinary acceptance and significance and the meaning commonly attributed to them" ( Phaneuf v City of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-10State Agencies Bulletin No. 1736
… for employees who have at least one year of service credit in either BU01 or BU21. Effective Date(s) The bi-weekly Security Services Hazardous Duty Pay will be … are taxable income, will be included in the employee’s taxable gross and are subject to all employment and income …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/1736-new-security-services-hazardous-duty-pay-arbitration-eligible-bu01-and