New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced the audits listed below for School Districts and Municipalities issued during the week ending August 19, 2022
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School District
Indian River Central School District – Financial Condition Management (2022M-92) The Board and District officials did not adequately manage the District’s financial condition and the current findings and recommendations are similar to our November 2016 Financial Condition audit report. While the Board and officials made some progress in implementing the prior audit recommendations, they must continue to improve their management of financial condition, otherwise more taxes will be levied than are needed to fund operations.
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Minisink Valley Central School District did not maximized Medicaid reimbursements -- The District did not maximize Medicaid reimbursements by claiming for all eligible Medicaid services provided.
- Claims were not submitted for reimbursement for at least 3,083 eligible services totaling $187,932. Had these services been claimed, the District would have realized revenues totaling $93,966 (50 percent of the Medicaid reimbursements).
- Between July 1, 2020 and December 31, 2021, the District paid a third-party vendor (vendor) $54,996 to process the District’s Medicaid claims. However, officials did not provide the vendor with all of the documentation needed for the vendor to properly file all Medicaid claims and did not adequately oversee the vendor to ensure Medicaid reimbursements were maximized.
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Wynantskill Union Free School District – Purchasing (2022M-85)
District officials could not always support competition was sought when purchasing goods and services that fell below the statutory bidding thresholds. Officials did not:
- Develop clear guidance in procedures to seek competition for purchasing goods and services that were not required to be competitively bid.
- Follow the District’s purchasing policy for 25 purchases (83 percent) totaling $53,883.
- Adequately document they sought competition for 17 purchases totaling $27,231. Further, contract award and pricing information was lacking on seven purchases made through State contract vendors, and the District should have paid $1,028 less for three purchases.
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Municipalities
Town of Hempstead – Information Technology Access Controls (2021M-158)
Town officials did not establish adequate access controls to help safeguard IT systems against unauthorized access.
The Board and Town officials did not:
- Develop and adopt comprehensive IT policies and procedures addressing key IT security issues, such as breach notification, and those related to acceptable computer use, protection of PPSI, application and network controls, password security, and user access controls.
- Provide IT security awareness training to all IT users, so they understand IT security measures and their roles in safeguarding data and IT assets.
In addition, sensitive IT control weaknesses were communicated confidentially to officials.
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