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Oversight of Smart Schools Bond Act Funds
… Education Department (Department) is monitoring the use of Smart Schools Bond Act funds to ensure that school … State voters in November 2014, authorizing the issuance of up to $2 billion in bonds to finance improvements to … Under the Act, school districts were allocated a portion of the $2 billion based on the percentage of selected school …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2020/06/10/oversight-smart-schools-bond-act-fundsLegal Topics and Approvals
… Advisory Legal Opinions Local Debt Refunding: Procedures for Seeking … Request these publications from the Division of Legal Services at (518) 474-5586: Application Forms for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/resources/legal-topics-and-approvalsState Agencies Bulletin No. 726
… employees’ salaries and the processing of necessary salary corrections. Affected Employees Non-Statutory … described below should be applied for determining the salary when these employees move to a graded position. Method … unallocated N/S salary. Promotions from “Equated to Grade” Positions If the unallocated N/S position that the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/726-implementation-new-method-calculating-salaries-employees-upon-movementXIII.2.A Expense Report Mandatory Header Fields – XIII. Employee Expense Reimbursement
… populated in the expense report, and the required format for the fields. Please note that SFS will not allow an … in any mandatory field is in an incorrect format. For additional instruction on this topic, visit job aid … Mandatory Fields – Travel-Related Expense Reports For all travel-related expense reports (i.e., expense reports …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xiii/xiii2a-expense-report-mandatory-header-fieldsOpinion 89-12
… professional engineer to prepare plans and specifications for the erection of a prefabricated building. You also state … provided by the practitioner or his or her organization for such government body (see also section 29.3[a][4]). While … to prepare specifications to furnish and install equipment for courthouses. The engineer also generally was to supervise …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-12Cybersecurity Month Phishing
Learn how to recognize and report phishing emails and schemes to protect your municipality from the risk of unauthorized access.
https://www.osc.ny.gov/files/local-government/academy/pdf/cybersecurity-month-phishing-10-31-22.pdfState Agencies Bulletin No. 2265
… of the Council 82 Non-Pensionable Lump Sum Payment and to provide processing instructions for entering the … PEF (05) RRSU (67) SSU (01, 21) SSPU (61, 91) SUNY M/C (13) UUP (08) Have an Employee Status of Active, Leave With … inactive individuals who are 62 or older in the calendar year and to active employees with the New York Retiree …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/2265-council-82-afscme-afl-cio-council-82-security-supervisors-2024-nonState Agencies Bulletin No. 2266
… Purpose: The purpose of this bulletin is to inform agencies of OSC’s automatic processing of the APSU … mailing will be asked to fill out the request and return it to OSC for inclusion on the Special Wage Payment Report to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/payroll-bulletins/state-agencies/2266-agency-police-services-unit-apsu-employees-represented-policeNew York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli Statement on Federal Tax Reform
… of legislation over the finish line is not a legislative victory for taxpayers." … Both houses of Congress are …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/12/new-york-state-comptroller-thomas-p-dinapoli-statement-federal-tax-reformAccounts Payable Advisory No. 6
… when processing payments to vendors. Improper preparation of vouchers payable to Time Warner Cable may delay payment …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/advisories/accounts-payable-advisory/6-complex-entity-time-warner-cableAccounts Payable Advisory No. 16
… when processing payments to vendors. Improper preparation of vouchers payable to Long Island Power Authority may delay …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/advisories/accounts-payable-advisory/16-complex-entity-long-island-power-authorityAccounts Payable Advisory No. 7
… must select the correct Vendor ID and Address Sequence when processing payments to vendors. Improper preparation of … Number Requirements , Business Units must ensure there is a unique invoice number for each voucher. For information on how to process payments …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/advisories/accounts-payable-advisory/7-complex-entity-barnes-nobleDiNapoli: Audit Recommends Improved Oversight of Nurse Licensing by State Education Department
… Education Department (SED) should improve its process to investigate serious complaints against nurses and more … days. DiNapoli's auditors, however, found that on average it took 228 days to complete such investigations, including … those on the job, but my auditors found the department is not always meeting its own goals, which is potentially …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/09/dinapoli-audit-recommends-improved-oversight-nurse-licensing-state-education-departmentXII.5.J Entering the Division of the Budget Approval Code – XII. Expenditures
When processing payments that are subject to approval by the Division of the Budget DOB Business Units should indicate the approved B1184 request number in the DOB Approval Code field of the voucher
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xii/xii5j-entering-division-budget-approval-codeOpinion 95-20
… views if, among other things, there have been subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues … Esq., Counsel Office of Court Administration … Whether a surrogates court should charge a petitioner one filing fee or …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-20DiNapoli Audit: Pre-K Special Education Provider Spent $2.5 Million in Unallowed Expenses
… benefit,” DiNapoli said. “Unfortunately, once again we’ve found another school that failed to spend the money … employees worked solely for its related services program. When DiNapoli’s auditors asked Starting Point officials to … provide documentation explaining where staff worked and when. Starting Point’s financial mismanagement existed …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/12/dinapoli-audit-pre-k-special-education-provider-spent-25-million-unallowed-expensesDiNapoli Finds State Needs to Do More to Address Nursing Home Pandemic Issues
… identified in a March 2022 audit of the state’s response to the COVID-19 outbreak in nursing homes, according to a follow-up report released today by New York State … DiNapoli. The initial audit found the state was unprepared to respond to infectious disease outbreaks at nursing homes, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/12/dinapoli-finds-state-needs-do-more-address-nursing-home-pandemic-issuesState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal & School Audits
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the … State and Local Retirement System. The release of this report was held due to the findings being referred to outside … or disable the network. Rochester Academy Charter School – Credit Cards (Monroe County) School officials did not ensure …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/06/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-school-audits-1Opinion 2002-13
… the members of a volunteer fire department may determine to use foreign fire insurance tax monies to make reasonable expenditures to fund the fire department … companies, the members of each company, must determine how these monies are to be used for the benefit of the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2002-13State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… for proper district purposes. Warren County – Occupancy Tax and Weights and Measures (2016M-346) While the procedures … with the county that should have been remitting occupancy tax. Auditors also found that the director of the county's …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/04/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits