Auditor finds only ‘minor’ problems in four St. Louis agencies
By Cara | January 28, 2010
State Auditor Susan Montee announced today that investigators found only a few minor problems during their review of four areas of St. Louis city government — the courts, prosecutor, public administrator and recorder of deeds.
The reports were among the last her office is preparing on each of the city’s departments in the last year. Montee prepared the audits after voters filed a petition requesting the review.
“With all these audits were putting out today, there are no major problems,” she said at a news conference this morning. “It’s just some cleaning up they need to do.”
Montee said several bank accounts in the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office were not being routinely reconciled leading to errors. The auditor also suggested that the prosecutor keep a master log of all evidence in her cases
and create better policies for disposing of it.
Montee said city officials have been ignoring requests from the public administrator to be paid a salary rather than from fees, which is allowed by law. The city should also be paying for benefits of the public administrator’s
employees, Montee said.
The St. Louis Recorder of Deeds needs to keep a better log of his city- paid vehicle when he drives it for personal use.
The office also needs to hand over accounting for one of its bank accounts to the treasurer, Montee said.
The operating budgets for the St. Louis Circuit Clerk, St. Louis Circuit Court and St. Louis Municipal Court passed with a clean report, Montee said.
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