The auditors found officials mismanaged audits and failed to enforce price caps meant to hold down costs for local school building projects.
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Clark Chapin is the GOP choice for state auditor
Clark Chapin has been nominated to succeed the late Rob Kane as the Republican auditor of public accounts.
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Amidst investigations, vo-tech schools chief to resign
Nivea L. Torres, superintendent of Connecticut’s vocational-technical school system, is resigning from that post on May 1 amidst at least four investigations, the state Department of Education announced Monday.
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State auditors looking into vo-tech system contracts
Connecticut’s state auditors have joined other state and federal officials in investigating contracts between the state’s vocational-technical school system and two Rocky Hill-based marking and consulting firms.
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Auditors: State employed spills-response supervisor who couldn’t do the job
State environmental protection officials employed for 15 months a hazardous spills-response supervisor who was “incapable of performing the duties” — wasting resources and potentially threatening public safety — State Auditors John C. Geragosian and Robert M. Ward reported Wednesday.
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Auditors find shortcoming in regents’ central office
State auditors have found that the Board of Regents’ central office did not follow several state laws created to protect the public college system from improprieties and mismanagement.
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Malloy administration approved costly financing for UConn outpatient facility
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s administration approved the controversial financing method for a University of Connecticut Health Center project that auditors say cost the state $77 million in “unnecessary” interest.
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Auditors: Workers’ comp officials overcharged insurers to rebuild fund
The state improperly charged Connecticut insurance companies and small businesses $450,000 last fiscal year to recoup a legislative raid on the Workers’ Compensation Administration Fund, the state auditors reported Monday.
But in a written response to the Auditors John C. Geragosian and Robert M. Ward, the commission insisted the assessment was necessary to ensure it had sufficient cash on hand to meet its obligations.
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Despite one big miss, most CT teachers’ pensions were delivered
The state failed to deliver teacher pension funds over the past decade in just 15 of more than 7,800 cases involving deaths – a failure rate of less than one-fifth of 1 percent, according to an interim report filed Monday.
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Malloy, Cafero displeased with pension gaffe explanation
Gov. Dannel P. Malloy said Friday he’s not satisfied with one agency’s explanation about how it failed for five years to deliver – or even attempt to contact – a teacher’s pension beneficiary owed almost $200,000. And the top Republican in the House of Representatives said it might be time for an independent review of the state Teachers’ Retirement Board.