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Copiague Fire District – Cash Disbursements (Suffolk County) March 21, 2022 was the date of the audit report.
Checks for 39 payments totaling $141,904 were deposited between one and 131 days before they were approved, and 306 checks, totaling almost $2 million, had only one of the two required signatures. Payments totaling $3,190 were approved even though they were not valid district expenditures.Copiague Fire District – Credit Card Purchases (Suffolk County) District officials did not comply with the credit card use policy. Of 1,172 credit card charges made during the audit period, 753 totaling $70,458 did not have receipts or invoices attached to the claims. Nineteen credit card purchases exceeded the travel meal allowance by $5,047. The board approved 28 charges totaling $5,786 for refreshments that were in violation of New York State Public Officers Law. The board also approved $1,488 in charges that were not for valid district purposes.
As of December 2015, there were 886 fire districts in the state.Ninety-four percent of fire district revenues come from property taxes.
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