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Controller summarizes audits; hotel operators owe small back taxes, audit finds

2144791 · January 24, 2025
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Summary

The county controller presented highlights from multiple audits — procurement card program, vendor checks, law library, Domestic Relations Agency, and hotel-room tax audits — finding generally appropriate procedures overall but identifying small errors and underpayments totaling modest amounts.

Controller Zareczynski presented a series of county audit highlights to the finance committee on Jan. 22, reporting generally favorable conclusions while noting specific exceptions and amounts due from several hotel operators.

On the procurement-card (P‑card) audit for Sept. 2, 2022–Sept. 2, 2023, the controller said the agreed‑upon procedures engagement found that transaction receipts had been uploaded and that no intentional circumvention of procurement policies was detected. The report noted isolated issues: a sample of fixed-asset purchases showed four purchases that exceeded thresholds and were later added to the fixed-asset report, one transaction improperly included sales tax, and several transactions lacked full authorization from listed cost-center signers. “The…

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