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Mayor Mapp's insistence on dealing with the city's auditors' recommendations has paid off. |
Plainfield's CY2016 audit was released on Friday, revealing a near-perfect score on the questions of Recommended Actions.
Thanks to the persistence of Mayor Adrian O. Mapp, himself a Certified Municipal Finance Officer, Plainfield has gotten its act together big time since he became mayor in 2014.
In addition to missing cash problems that affected the Health Division, the Tax Collector's office and the Recreation Division in past years, there were longstanding problems -- noted in the audits' Recommendations sections. Among the perennial process and record-keeping issues in Plainfield have been failure to deposit cash on time, purchases circumventing the purchasing procedures, and sloppy record-keeping.
As I pointed out in reviewing last year's audit (CY2015, see here), in his third year in office, Mayor Mapp had reduced the flagged items in the Recommendations section from 34 findings (filling five pages) in Mayor Robinson-Briggs' final year, to seven findings in 2015 -- four of which concerned infractions of purchasing rules.
This year, there is only one recommendation, and that concerns the outsourced animal control program:
Congratulations to Director of Administration & Finance Ron West and his crew for their hard work. We can practically see the Promised Land from here.
Thanks to the persistence of Mayor Adrian O. Mapp, himself a Certified Municipal Finance Officer, Plainfield has gotten its act together big time since he became mayor in 2014.
In addition to missing cash problems that affected the Health Division, the Tax Collector's office and the Recreation Division in past years, there were longstanding problems -- noted in the audits' Recommendations sections. Among the perennial process and record-keeping issues in Plainfield have been failure to deposit cash on time, purchases circumventing the purchasing procedures, and sloppy record-keeping.
As I pointed out in reviewing last year's audit (CY2015, see here), in his third year in office, Mayor Mapp had reduced the flagged items in the Recommendations section from 34 findings (filling five pages) in Mayor Robinson-Briggs' final year, to seven findings in 2015 -- four of which concerned infractions of purchasing rules.
This year, there is only one recommendation, and that concerns the outsourced animal control program:
Monthly animal control reports filed with the state were not filed on a timely basis and were not always filled out accurately, resulting in paying the State incorrectly.The audit document should appear on the city's Municipal Finance web page (see here) within the next day or two.
RECOMMENDATION: That monthly animal control State reports be reconciled with license fees collected.
Congratulations to Director of Administration & Finance Ron West and his crew for their hard work. We can practically see the Promised Land from here.
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