IL Waste
Department of Transportation
IDOT “did not timely perform inspections of bridges.” According to the agency’s own methods, 45 local bridges were overdue for inspections, ranging from two months to 2 1/2 years. One bridge, which was rated as structurally deficient, was found to be 10 1/2 years overdue, though the audit didn’t specify which one. State bridges were inspected on time, but information on 25 of them hadn’t been entered into the system as of May 2014.
Department of Natural Resources
The DNR did not collect 1,019 assessment fees of $500 for consultations under the Endangered Species Protection Act, which resulted in more than $500,000 in uncollected revenue.
Historic Preservation Agency
The agency did not have a third party review of its cache of artifacts. Additionally, the audit “noted approximately 500 rare coins were not cataloged in the system.”
Department of Corrections
In 2014, more than $1 million overtime hours at the Department of Corrections racked up nearly $50 million in pay. Reviewing the overtime payments of 20 correctional employees at the Logan Correctional Center in Lincoln and the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, near Joliet, an audit revealed that 10 employees claimed overtime during days they took leave, including one person who did so 19 times.
Illinois State Police
The department “did not exercise adequate control over the recording and reporting of its state property and equipment,” including 39 of 57 items “listed as lost or missing (that) could possibly have confidential information stored on them.”
In addition to several other financial discrepancies, the State Police also could not explain $1.3 million of differences on its books in 2013 and $675,000 from 2014.
University of Illinois
The college often improperly executed the contracting process. For example, in a review of 67 contracts, nine didn’t contain the signature of the employee signing on behalf of the University comptroller.
Among other things, the paperwork of eight leases on 25 university properties weren’t completed until after the leases began.
Lottery Department
An audit in June 2014 showed that miscalculation of prize money amounted to $7.3 million of overstated payout liability for Instant games. It also revealed a discrepancy of nearly $5 million in the accounts-receivable department.
The audit also found that annuity prizes payable and long-term annuity prizes payable overstated by $244,000 and $4.5 million, respectively, and investment income and interest expense were overstated and understated by $4.8 million and $60,000, respectively.
Department of Human Services
The agency overstated its allowance of double accounts by more than $110 million.
Housing Development Authority
The authority didn’t update loan ratings, explain current loan ratings, or properly calculate the allowance for loan loss — things like the likelihood of default — in its financial statements.
Central Management Services
This department assists about 106 state institutions with payroll, inventory, timekeeping and accounting. A review of the department found that user identities weren’t verified properly when people reset their passwords and that the department made poor risk assessment operations and poorly enacted security noncompliance policies.
Seven agencies had inadequate information-recovery plans, and seven agencies didn’t secure confidential information properly.
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