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Town board debates scope of forensic accounting RFP, stops short of changing audit period
Summary
Board members discussed a proposed RFP for forensic accounting services to review town financial records and disagreed over whether the audit period should cover 2020–2023 (the controller's recommendation) or be expanded through 2024; no final decision on the audit period was recorded.
The town board of Greenburgh discussed the scope of a proposed request for proposals seeking forensic accounting services to review financial records and identify irregularities.
Chair (S1) introduced the item, saying the RFP would seek proposals "to provide forensic related services to examine financial records including bank statements, journal entries, general ledger, and other relevant documents across departments to identify any irregularities, discrepancies, and or deviations from best accounting principles for the year 2020 to 2023." The chair argued the review should extend to 2024 so the audit would reflect recent changes: "I feel we should do 2020 to 2024 because this way, you know, they could say, in 2020, we made all these mistakes. 2024, now we have a different, you know, team and look how there's been improvements," the chair said.
Other board members pushed back on expanding the audit period. A committee member (S5) said the town's current controller recommended limiting the scope to 2020–2023 given the additional time and work required: "the recommendation of our current controller having just gone through an audit... I didn't want to go back even further because that's gonna take it even longer and longer and longer." Another member (S4) asked whether the comptroller should weigh in on the time period and on the expected timeline for producing a report.
Board members debated trade-offs: supporters of a longer period said including 2024 would help the board spot recent improvements or continuing problems; opponents said 2024's accounts are not yet complete and expanding the range could delay the engagement.
The transcript does not show a formal vote or a final amendment to the RFP's dates. The item was discussed at length and then the meeting moved on without a definitive change to the RFP period recorded in the transcript.
What's next: The RFP was presented and discussed; the comptroller's input on the auditing period and the RFP timeline was mentioned as a deciding factor, and the board did not record a final decision on whether to expand coverage through 2024.
