Liverpool school district finds $250,000 questionable spending in audit
From Sunshine Review
31 July 2008
The Liverpool Central School District in Albany, New York recently underwent an audit by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli where $250,000 of questionable spending was found.
[edit] Audit findings
The questions spending included the following:[1]
- The superintendent was overpaid $26,275 during the 2000-01 to 2002-03 fiscal years, and leave records were not available to support payments he received for unused leave totaling $67,790.
- In 2005-06, the superintendent approved payments totaling $15,000 into the tax shelter annuities of three employees without board authorization.
- A board member received free health insurance for a total of $44,283 in insurance costs
- 32 laptops (costing about $38,400) for the districts "Student Lap Top program" went missing and were never recovered
- The district violated the State Constitution when it donated the proceeds from the sale of 28 new laptop computers to a nonprofit corporation directly to the non-profit. This circumvented the district’s regular disbursement procedures, entirely bypassing the claims audit and approval process.
