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Youth Facility Chargeback Rates to Localities (Follow-Up)
… Purpose To determine the extent of implementation of the seven … in our original report, Youth Facility Chargeback Rates to Localities (2009-S-20). Background Our initial audit … To determine the extent of implementation of the seven …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2014/01/16/youth-facility-chargeback-rates-localities-followUniversity at Buffalo – Selected Employee Travel Expenses
… Purpose To determine whether the use of travel monies by selected government employees complied with … spend between $100 million and $150 million each year on travel expenses. These expenses, which are discretionary and … fuel, and incidental costs such as airline baggage and travel agency fees. As part of a statewide initiative to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2013/04/10/university-buffalo-selected-employee-travel-expensesCaton Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. – Internal Controls Over Financial Activities (2013M-237)
… The Caton Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. is located in the Town of Caton, in Steuben County. The Company’s officers consist of a …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/fire-district/2013/11/01/caton-volunteer-fire-company-inc-internal-controls-over-financialEfficiency of Warehouse Space (Follow-Up)
… central source for this information. Our initial report, covering the period January 1, 2014 through March 29, 2019, … could not determine the Initiative’s overall success, as an inventory of all State warehouses – leased and State owned …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2022/05/25/efficiency-warehouse-space-followOversight of Resident Care-Related Medical Equipment in Nursing Homes (Follow-Up)
… equipment. The Department oversees nursing homes in the State through its Division of Nursing Homes and Intermediate …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2019/11/18/oversight-resident-care-related-medical-equipment-nursing-homes-followState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… his office completed audits of Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company , Town of Ithaca and the Town of Smithtown . "In … appropriately and effectively." Chestertown Volunteer Fire Company – Financial Operations (Warren County) The treasurer … and disbursements. Because records were so poor, the company could not provide assurance that all cash had …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/06/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-audits-0Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… ensure that receipts were properly recorded and deposited in the bank and that disbursements were properly supported … $4,100 in County funds from 2012 to 2017 and resigned from her position. In addition, the board does not review all … records to identify outstanding balances. The Court has a shortage of $370 and unidentified funds of $8,207. Town of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2019/08/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-auditsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases School District Audits
… In addition, officials did not ensure IT policies were up-to-date with current technology changes. User accounts were … accounts were not disabled. Officials did not maintain up-to-date IT asset inventory records or enter into adequate … supported and disbursed. Auditors questioned payments to three employees totaling $108,963. District officials paid …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/03/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-district-auditsState Comptroller DiNapoli Releases Municipal Audits
… New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the … required annual financial reports with the Office of the State Comptroller for fiscal years 2015–2019 in compliance … at Open Book New York . Track municipal spending, the state's 180,000 contracts, billions in state payments and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/04/state-comptroller-dinapoli-releases-municipal-auditsComptroller DiNapoli Releases School District Audits
… points. As of June 30, 2019, the District overfunded one reserve by $820,000. South Colonie Central School …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/04/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-district-auditsMontauk Fire District – Audit Follow-Up (2024M-117-F)
… mandated Annual Financial Report (AFR) for fiscal years 2021, 2022 and 2023, and filed the 2020 AFR nearly 1,200 days late. Employees received longevity and overtime payments totaling $25,000 in 2023 that …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/fire-district/2025/12/31/montauk-fire-district-audit-follow-2024m-117-fWyandanch Union Free School District - Budget Review (B19-7-1)
… 2019-20 budget. Background The Wyandanch Union Free School District, located in Suffolk County, adopted budgets …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2019/03/29/wyandanch-union-free-school-district-budget-review-b19-7-1Caledonia-Mumford Central School District – Financial Management (2024M-101)
… money that should be returned to the general fund. For example, officials increased the unemployment reserve to … three years and sufficient to fund applicable expenditures for about 500 years. District officials overstated the … management and did not provide adequate justification for the levels of accumulated fund balance including …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/school-district/2024/12/06/caledonia-mumford-central-school-district-financial-management-2024m-101DiNapoli: Numbers of Homeless Population Doubled in New York
… the number of permanent supportive housing units (52,462 vs. 78,758) and permanent housing beds (21,672 vs. 26,059), but lags other large states in the number of …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2025/01/dinapoli-numbers-homeless-population-doubled-new-yorkDiNapoli: NYC Transit Should Improve Response to Safety-Related Defects
… sharp metal objects; station platform cracks; and an oil leak on the station platform. Several of the defects involved …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2017/06/dinapoli-nyc-transit-should-improve-response-safety-related-defectsOpinion 88-45
… may be renewed, the notes, including all renewals, shall mature not later than the last day of the second fiscal year … than fifty per centum of the amount of such notes shall mature in the first fiscal year succeeding the fiscal year in … levied or to be levied for the fiscal year in which they mature or out of other revenues of that fiscal year available …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-45Opinion 97-1
… past liability in accordance with the local law providing for the experience rating, or the county's rules and … St Comp No. 79-732, unreported). A "public corporation" for this purpose includes: (a) municipal corporations (i.e., … valuation. In addition, a county may provide by local law for the operation of the plan on an experience rating basis, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-97-1Opinion 2000-21
… or towns and village or villages a joint fire district for the purposes hereinafter stated and in the manner … town or towns. This language suggests that, in order for a village to be included within a joint fire district, … 4 of Town Law §189-a, which establishes a procedure for extension of a joint fire district by "each town and … …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-2000-21Opinion 93-30
… or statutory amendments that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. COUNTIES -- Powers and Duties (liability for … justice court and committed by order of the court to the custody of the county sheriff, a village transports the … charge. You ask whether the cost incurred by a village in transporting an individual from a village justice court to …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-93-30DiNapoli: Pandemic Necessity and Opportunity Fuel Business Growth in New York City
… in 2023 that remained below pre-pandemic levels. While Manhattan remained home to the largest share of city … businesses rose by at least 10% in every borough except Manhattan, with some neighborhoods seeing particularly … small business growth over the four years included Manhattan’s Harlem (19.4%) and the Bronx’s Wakefield, …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2024/06/dinapoli-pandemic-necessity-and-opportunity-fuel-business-growth-new-york-city