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DiNapoli: Town of Altona Official Misused $23,500
… fiscal year or hire an independent auditor to conduct the audits; and Identify the financial reports that the … can be viewed here: http://www.osc.state.ny.us/localgov/audits/towns/2014/altona.pdf DiNapoli encourages the public …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/05/dinapoli-town-altona-official-misused-23500Opinion 98-15
… local legislative body of a municipal corporation, after public notice appropriately given at least 30 days prior to … that case, the court held that the specific provisions of Public Housing Law, §124, which authorizes the grant, lease or conveyance of municipal real property to a public housing authority and contains no referendum …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-98-15Opinion 97-15
… subsequent court cases or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. COUNTIES -- …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-15State Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School Audits
… district developed budgets that were reasonable and based on historical or known expenditures. District officials have …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/11/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-auditsPublic Welfare – 2023 Financial Condition Report
… couples, persons who have exceeded the 60-month limit on Family Assistance, children living apart from adult …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/reports/finance/2023-fcr/public-welfareDiNapoli: New York City Projecting $3.4 Billion Surplus for 2016
… New York City is projecting a surplus of $3.4 billion for … be used to narrow the gaps. DiNapoli’s report notes that New York City’s financial plan does not reflect the full …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/05/dinapoli-new-york-city-projecting-34-billion-surplus-2016DiNapoli: Office of Children and Family Services Can Improve Efforts to Investigate Child Fatalities
… An audit released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli found the … Services (OCFS), which oversees the locally administered child welfare system that investigates reports of alleged child abuse or child fatalities, can take additional steps to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/01/dinapoli-office-children-and-family-services-can-improve-efforts-investigate-child-fatalitiesState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School District Audits
… assets with a combined cost of $55,832 were not recorded on the inventory list. District officials were unable to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/11/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-district-auditsComptroller DiNapoli Releases School Audits
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced … Services , Fabius-Pompey Central School District Indian River Central School District , Jamesville – Dewitt Central … in place to protect taxpayer dollars from waste, fraud and abuse. New York’s school districts annually spend …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/11/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-audits-0DiNapoli: School Districts Need to Improve Oversight of Technology Equipment
… selected 1,155 IT assets to confirm they were inventoried in school districts’ records and selected 945 of these to see … for. Although three districts — East Quogue Union Free School District, Elmsford Union Free School District and … damage. Report IT Asset Management Track state and local government spending at Open Book New York . Under State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2023/03/dinapoli-school-districts-need-improve-oversight-technology-equipmentDiNapoli: MTA Not Holding Paratransit Contractor Accountable
… Authority (MTA) did not collect almost $400,000 in penalty fees from Global Contact Services (GCS), a … April 2013 through May 2015, GCS, the contractor hired to run the MTA’s Paratransit Call Center – which provides travel … than 50,000 state contracts, visit www.openbooknewyork.com . The easy-to-use website was created by DiNapoli to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/11/dinapoli-mta-not-holding-paratransit-contractor-accountableAvoiding a Rejected DRO – Divorce and Your Benefits
… and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) that provide for pension distributions at the earliest eligibility age do not … in the Common Retirement Fund. Upon retirement, a member’s pension benefit is calculated according to their retirement plan and the amount necessary to pay the pension is transferred to the pension reserve fund. The …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/retirement/members/divorce/avoiding-rejected-droComptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… Town officials did not adopt realistic budgets based on historical or known trends for the town’s three sewer …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2014/08/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits-0Comptroller DiNapoli and A.G. Schneiderman Announce Conviction of Atlanta, Ga Resident in Pension Fraud Case
… in the Third Degree, for stealing over $204,000 in state pension benefits issued to his deceased mother. As part of … in January 2016, Cook admitted to stealing $204,315.76 in pension benefits issued to his deceased mother, Yvonne … in March 2009. “Hiding the death of a loved one to steal pension benefits is not only shameful, it is crime," State …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/03/comptroller-dinapoli-and-ag-schneiderman-announce-conviction-atlanta-ga-resident-pension-fraud-caseComptroller DiNapoli Releases State Audits
… The decision to use the non-competitive contract was based on unsupported claims from Downstate officials. … New York …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/03/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-state-auditsXI.2.A Thresholds – XI. Procurement and Contract Management
… § 112(3), which covers contracts where the State agrees to give consideration other than the payment of money, is … for additional information). CONTRACTS NOT SUBJECT TO COMPTROLLER APPROVAL Contracts valued under the approval … without conducting a formal competitive process and do not affect the thresholds set forth above under “OSC …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xi/xi2a-thresholdsDiNapoli: Audits Reveal Millions in Lost Revenue for Local Water Systems
… Audits of municipal water systems estimate local governments are losing millions of dollars in revenue due to water loss, inaccurate meters or improper … depleting fund balances; and Some local officials had no strategies to eliminate long-term deficits, improve …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/10/dinapoli-audits-reveal-millions-lost-revenue-local-water-systemsDiNapoli: MWBE Participation in the State’s Pension Fund Rose to All-Time High in State Fiscal Year 2020-21
… grew from $20 billion to approximately $27 billion in state fiscal year 2020-21 and the Fund’s Emerging Manager … of the best managed and best funded public pension funds in the nation, we have built new opportunities for asset … its steady deployment of capital to MWBE firms. Increases in value over the previous year were particularly strong in …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/07/dinapoli-mwbe-participation-states-pension-fund-rose-all-time-high-state-fiscal-year-2020-21DiNapoli: 27 NY Local Governments Persistently Delinquent in Filing Required Financial Data to the State
… management. When a local government fails to keep this public information current and accessible, it undermines … of local governments. State and local policymakers and the public can access this data through the Office of the State … state's 170,000 contracts, billions in state payments and public authority data. Visit the Reading Room for contract …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/03/dinapoli-27-ny-local-governments-persistently-delinquent-filing-required-financial-data-stateDiNapoli: Better Oversight Needed at Homeless Shelters
… with 92,091 individuals. New York also had the largest increase in this population – 46.8 percent – between 2007 and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/03/dinapoli-better-oversight-needed-homeless-shelters