New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following school district audits have been issued.

East Irondequoit Central School District – Payroll and Leave Accruals (Monroe County)

Payroll calculation errors cost the district $3,638. In addition, errors totaling $9,100 occurred with manual leave accrual entries. Auditors also found five employees had 21 time sheets lacking proper approvals and two employees had eight time sheets that were missing.

Third quarter local sales tax collections in New York state totaled $4.8 billion, an increase of 6.3 percent over the same period last year, according to a report released today by New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following local government audits have been issued.

Town of East Hampton – Budget Review (Suffolk County)

Auditors found that the significant revenue and expenditure projections in the tentative budget are reasonable. The town’s 2020 tentative budget includes a proposed tax levy of $58,426,602.

Local governments in New York levied a total of $36.6 billion in property taxes in 2019 – an increase of 2.4 percent over 2018, according to a report released today by State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli. Annual property tax levy increases have slowed significantly since 2005 and dipped below 2 percent in 2015, where they remained until 2019.

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli hosted a reception in honor of Italian Heritage Month on Oct. 23 in Tuckahoe, N.Y.

DiNapoli honored five Italian-Americans for their contributions to New York:

Former Town of Perry Ambulance Service Business Manager Darcy J. Conaway was charged this week with grand larceny in the third degree for allegedly syphoning more than $3,000 of ambulance service funds, according to New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli.

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following school district audits have been issued.

Binghamton City School District – Information Technology (Broome County)

Officials did not regularly review network user accounts and disable those that were unnecessary. In addition, the board did not have an adequate contract and separate service level agreement for information technology.

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli hosted a reception in Hempstead, N.Y. in honor of Hispanic Heritage month on Oct. 19.

DiNapoli honored five Hispanic leaders for their contributions and leadership, including:

New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli today announced the following school district audits have been issued.

Byram Hills Central School District – Fixed Assets (Westchester County)

The board did not approve the disposal of assets with a book value of $4,483. Auditors found that district officials did not maintain up-to-date disposal records and 10 of 25 assets (40 percent) totaling $43,330 were not traced to locations.

Former Mayfield Town Clerk Dorothy Hart was sentenced today to 250 hours of community service and paid back over $35,000 which she stole from property tax payments and dog license fees deposited with the town over four years, State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli said.