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Audit Objective

Determine whether the Board provided adequate oversight of Village financial operations.

Key Findings

The Board did not:

• Audit or cause an audit of the financial records for 2014-15 through 2017-18.
• Audit individual claims before authorizing payment.
• Follow its procurement policy when selecting professional services, and did not periodically seek competition for those services.
• Comply with New York State Village Law, Section 5-506 (Village Law) when presenting the budgets for 2015-16 through 2017-18.

Key Recommendations

• Audit, or cause a timely audit of, Village financial records.
• Conduct a thorough and deliberate audit of claims before authorizing payment.
• Periodically seek competition for professional service providers, and maintain all relevant documentation when obtaining proposals.
• Ensure tentative budgets contain all information required by law.

Village officials generally agreed with our recommendations and have initiated or indicated they planned to initiate corrective action.