This audit determined if the Public Safety ?Non-Uniformed Services? agencies are effectively monitoring their employees who use an E-ZPass and parking permits while driving City-owned or personally-owned vehicles on City business.
The objective of this audit was to determine whether the wireless internet (Wi-Fi) services in New York City parks provided by AT&T, Spectrum and Altice USA is operating effectively. The audit found that overall, the Wi-Fi services provided by these providers generally operated as intended.
This Letter Report summarizes the findings of our audit on the compliance of Alley Pond Driving Range, Inc. (Alley Pond) with its license agreement with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (Parks) for the Alley Pond Golf Center.
Letter Audit Report summarizing the findings of an audit on the compliance of FirstFlight Heliport, LLC d/b/a Saker Aviation Services, Inc. with its obligations under its concession agreement with NYC, including its operation of the Downtown Manhattan Heliport
Letter Audit Report on the Department of Homeless Services' Monitoring of Their Employees Who Drive City-Owned or Personally-Owned Vehicles on City Business
Letter Audit Report on the Development and Implementation of the Client Assistance Re-housing Enterprise System Administered by the New York City Department of Homeless Services
This letter report dated on July 23rd, 2013 addressed the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS) Monitoring of the Community Partnership Program (CPP). The program was established to bring child welfare services closer to the community by forming partnerships within that community (CPPs). The object of the audit was to determine whether ACS's Office of Community Partnership (OCP) is adequately monitoring the CPPs to ensure that they are meeting their goals and objectives and determining whether the expenditures were reasonable and appropriate. It was determined that ACS is adequately monitoring the CPPs to ensure that they are meeting their goals and objectives. However, ACS gives CPPs wide latitude in how to report the activities associated with CPPs' goals and objectives, leading to inconsistencies. Expenses were deemed reasonable and appropriate, but there were a few minor errors. Recommendations were made to rectify these issues.
This Letter Report concerns the New York City Comptroller’s audit of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s (DOHMH’s) compliance with Local Law 25, which governs the translation of websites of New York City agencies.
This letter report dated on November 30, 2012 addresses World Ice Arena, LLC's compliance with its New York City license agreement to operate and maintain an ice-skating facility in Queens, New York. The objective was to determine whether World Ice accurately reported its gross receipts to the Department of Parks and Recreation and properly calculated and paid its fees due to the City. It was determined that World Ice generally maintained adequate controls over the recording and reporting of its gross revenues, calculated and paid its fees on time to the City. However, World Ice did not use pre-numbered contracts for group events as required by its agreement. Recommendations were made to rectify this issue.
This letter report was sent to provide the results of the audit regarding the Calculation and Application of Property Tax Abatement Benefits for the Commercial Revitalization Program by the Department
of Finance. The objective was to determine whether DOF properly calculated and applied property tax abatement benefits according to the requirements of Section 499 of the NYS Real Property
Tax Law.
This letter report was sent to provide the results of the audit regarding the Brooklyn Public Library's controls over internet access. The objectives of this audit were to determine whether the BPL's
controls are sufficient to prevent unauthorized access to inappropriate sites as required by the Children's Internet Protection Act.
This letter report dated on November 19, 2012 addresses Teck Gourmet Five, LLC's compliance with its sublicense agreement to operate and maintain a restaurant and catering facility at Douglaston Golf Course. It was determined that while Teck is operating a catering facility, it is not operating a restaurant as required by the agreement. In addition, Teck's internal controls over the recording of special event revenue need to be enhanced. It was recommended that the Department of Parks and Recreation and Douglaston Golf require Teck to adhere to its contract and strengthen its internal controls.
Audit of the DOB to determine compliance with Local Law 65, which is intended to make City agencies' business-inspection protocols and interactions accessible to immigrants and non-English speakers.
The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) is complying with Local Law 25, which is intended to make City agencies, and ultimately the City as a whole, more accessible to foreign-born residents whose primary language is not English.
This is a letter report regarding the audit of the Department of Correction's monitoring of its employees using E-ZPass and/or parking permits while driving City-owned or personally-owned vehicles on
City business. The objective of this audit is to determine if DOC, a public safety agency, is effectively monitoring its employees in accordance with applicable rules and regulations.
Letter Report on the NYC Comptroller's Audit of the Department of Finance and its administration of the Senior Citizen Rent Increase Exemption (SCRIE) program.
This letter report was sent to provide the results of the audit regarding the New York City Department of Health and mental Hygiene's Fiscal Monitoring Practices over the Prison Health Services contract.
The objective was to determine how effective DOHMH practices are in ensuring that it was billed accurately by PHS for Personal Service and Other Than Personal Service costs.