RESOLUTION NO. 243
AN ACT TO MODIFY THE RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ALBANY COUNTY EMPLOYEES
Introduced:
By: Mauriello, Burgdorf, Grimm, Drake, Lockart, Tunny, Langdon, Whalen and Perlee
WHEREAS, According to the Final Report - Time and Attendance Audit ("Final Report"), dated April 2020 issued by Comptroller Susan Rizzo and Chief Auditor Stephanie Slominski CIA, which reviewed the outgoing Comptroller, Michael Conners, Interim Audit Report, dated December, 2019, and a forensic audit by an outside CPA firm, Berdon LLP, certain areas of improvement exist for internal controls over time and attendance recording for the purpose of payroll disbursements; and
WHEREAS, some of the Key Observations of the Final Report are:
1) "Albany County Policy, as set forth by the County Legislature, related to time and attendance recording, does not provide specific guidance to require that departments maintain adequate supporting documentation of time and attendance records";
2) "Manual Entries to record time and attendance are either not supported by documentation or documentation is not obtained on a regular basis";
3) "Manual entries to record time and attendance are signed off by subordinates"; and
4) "Individuals with edit access making and approve their own time records"; and
WHEREAS: the existing "Rules and Regulations for Albany County Employees" contains no measure prohibiting County employees from engaging in political campaign work, while on the County clock, at the public expense; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Albany County Charter, entitled Powers and Duties of the Albany County Legislature, this body is charged with "Determining policy for the County and to adopt all necessary rules and regulations for its conduct and procedure" (Sec. 208 (a)), and with "Exercising legislative oversight of county programs and administrative units" (Sec. 208 (i)), and
WHEREAS, this body has previously adopted "Rules and Regulations for Albany County Empl...
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