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Audit flags Fire Department payroll practices; committee seeks follow-up
Summary
A City Services audit found the Fire Department used undocumented accrual adjustments and disproportionate vacation accruals that likely increased retirement payouts; auditors recommended policy changes and greater documentation, and the department agreed to work with unions and retirement services. The committee asked the department to identify other areas where practice may exceed MOU requirements.
The City Services Audit Division presented findings from its payroll audit of the San Francisco Fire Department covering fiscal year 2009-10, including testing of retirement lump-sum payouts, premium pays, acting assignments and payroll system configurations. The auditors said field work ran from Aug. 10, 2010, to March 15, 2011, and used a risk-based, statistically sampled review of pay records.
Auditors told the committee that the department adjusted vacation and sick-leave accrual banks for non-suppression employees using multipliers (for example, multiplying vacation balances by 1.5 and sick balances by factors between 1.2 and 3.08) to…
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