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DiNapoli: MTA Outlook Shows Growing Need for New Funding as Budget Gaps Widen
… billion in 2025 and grow in the outyears, according to a report on MTA’s financial outlook released today by New York … is clearer. Gaps are forecast at $2.5 billion in 2025 and 2026 as spending outpaces inflation projections, but could be … in the future, including the deferral of debt service payments. The MTA should specify and increase planned …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/10/dinapoli-mta-outlook-shows-growing-need-new-funding-budget-gaps-widenOpinion 89-7
… in excess of their salaries for meeting twice in one year to hear complaints in relation to assessments. You ask whether a town is required to pay the members of its board of assessment review … Whether a town is required to pay the members of its board of assessment review …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-89-7DiNapoli: NYC Faces Unprecedented Fiscal and Economic Challenges
… will need to make hard choices to ensure budget balance in the current fiscal year and to close next year’s budget gap.” More than 944,000 jobs were lost in March and April, the largest job loss since the Great … rate, which had fallen to a record low of 3.4 percent in February 2020, shot up to 20.4 percent in June, the …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2020/08/dinapoli-nyc-faces-unprecedented-fiscal-and-economic-challengesDiNapoli: The Rockaways Shows Signs of Recovery After Pandemic Setback
… is on the road to recovery. New York City’s iconic Rockaway Peninsula is an 11-mile-long barrier in Southwestern … Queens. The communities along the peninsula are Far Rockaway, Bayswater, Edgemere, Arverne, Hammels, Seaside, Rockaway Park, Belle Harbor, Neponsit, Rockaway Beach and Breezy Point. “After the devastation of Superstorm …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2022/09/dinapoli-rockaways-shows-signs-recovery-after-pandemic-setbackComptroller DiNapoli and A.G. Schneiderman Announce Sentencing of Former City of Rensselaer Department of Public Works Commissioner on Felony Charges For Stealing Scrap Metal Proceeds
… Rensselaer, for his role in teaming with two DPW employees to divert $46,000 from the city by pocketing the cash from … of their jobs with the city. Mr. Capuano was sentenced to five years of probation by The Honorable Judge Andrew … month. Mr. Capuano’s sentencing follows his guilty plea to the charge of Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree (a Class …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2015/06/comptroller-dinapoli-and-ag-schneiderman-announce-sentencing-former-city-rensselaer-department-publicDiNAPOLI: Unadilla Valley schools save more than $300,000 on special education
… special education costs over a two-year period, according to an audit issued today by New York State Comptroller Thomas … district officials developed a more cost-effective way to provide special education services to students that eliminates tuition and avoids transportation …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/04/dinapoli-unadilla-valley-schools-save-more-300000-special-educationXII.8.F Changes to Vouchers After Submission to OSC – XII. Expenditures
… submittal to the Office of the State Comptroller (OSC) for payment through the Statewide Financial System. The … Vendor Location – used to indicate the business defaults for the voucher (e.g., payment method, bank account for ACH, address sequence for checks). Scheduled Payment Date …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-xii/xii8f-changes-vouchers-after-submission-oscCollection of Lease and Permit Revenues
… Purpose To determine whether the Department of Transportation is … Interested parties can pay a fee for a permit to use such land temporarily. The Department is responsible … at the time of our review. When initial actions to collect revenues were unsuccessful, the Department …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2013/03/12/collection-lease-and-permit-revenuesOversight of the STEM Incentive Program (Follow-Up)
… our initial audit report Oversight of the STEM Incentive Program ( 2017-S-75 ) . About the Program Our initial audit report, which was issued on … Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Incentive Program (Program) to ensure recipients were in compliance …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2020/03/11/oversight-stem-incentive-program-followTiconderoga Joint Town/Village Fire District – Audit Follow-Up (2023M-182-F)
… The elected five-member Board governs the District and is responsible for its overall financial management. The Board-appointed Secretary-Treasurer is the chief fiscal officer and is responsible for receiving, distributing and accounting for …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/local-government/audits/fire-district/2025/12/31/ticonderoga-joint-townvillage-fire-district-audit-follow-2023m-182-fOpinion 88-28
… 219, 13 NYS2d 119, reversing 170 Misc 14, 9 NYS2d 760; In re Gainsway , 66 Misc 521, 123 NYS 966). In accordance with …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-28VI.2.B Policies/Laws – VI. Budgets
… and/or purchase orders. Any amount in the reserve is not available for any type of financial transaction. Only … appropriation by law; the maximum life of an appropriation is two years and every such law making a new appropriation or … sum appropriated, and the object or purpose to which it is to be applied; and it shall not be sufficient for such law …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/gfo/chapter-vi/vi2b-policieslawsOpinion 88-61
… of mailing to prove timeliness of) REAL PROPERTY TAX LAW, §925: A taxpayer may not satisfy the burden of … of such taxes. You informed us that you received a school tax payment in an envelope postmarked with a date after the … certificate of mailing were not the same. Real Property Tax Law, §925 governs the payment of taxes by mail and …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-88-61Opinion 95-12
… that bear on the issues discussed in the opinion. INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCIES -- Powers and Duties … savings banks. You ask whether a municipality and an industrial development agency (IDA) may deposit or invest … Whether a municipality and an industrial development agency IDA may deposit or invest their …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/legal-opinions/opinion-95-12Response Planning for Unexpected Events
… or procedures to address unexpected or unplanned events and whether those plans were followed, and whether the plans or procedures addressed the needs of … customers. We also examined whether Metro-North reassesses and revises its plans or procedures in response to actual …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2021/06/28/response-planning-unexpected-eventsDiNapoli: Audit Finds NYC Needs to Improve Income Verification and Enforcement at Mitchell-Lama Housing
… Some residents of Mitchell-Lama apartments in New York City make far more … P. DiNapoli. The audit found the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) has not done … income exceeds allowable limits. “The severe shortage of affordable housing in New York demands that subsidized …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/03/dinapoli-audit-finds-nyc-needs-improve-income-verification-and-enforcement-mitchell-lama-housingComptroller DiNapoli Releases School Audits
… District , Sauquoit Valley Central School District , Sharon Springs Central School District and the South Mountain … of approximately $200,000 for the 2015-16 fiscal year. Sharon Springs Central School District – Financial Condition …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2016/06/comptroller-dinapoli-releases-school-audits-0DiNapoli: Former School District Treasurer Sentenced for Stealing Funds
… at least $10,000 more by using the school district’s Amazon account and credit cards to purchase personal items …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/press/releases/2021/05/dinapoli-former-school-district-treasurer-sentenced-stealing-fundsFinancial Condition and Selected Expenses (Follow-Up)
… three major thoroughbred racetracks: Aqueduct Racetrack, Belmont Park, and Saratoga Race Course. In 2011, Resorts …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2018/01/24/financial-condition-and-selected-expenses-followSecurity Over Electronic Protected Health Information (Follow-Up)
… Purpose To determine the extent of implementation of the four … a highly developed information security program to protect the electronic protected health information (ePHI) … our testing, we found the Institute had taken many steps to safeguard its ePHI and meet Health Insurance Portability …
https://www.osc.ny.gov/state-agencies/audits/2016/10/07/security-over-electronic-protected-health-information-follow