Summary
Elected officials and their hired experts frequently failed to follow state purchasing rules when they signed off on public contracts, despite repeated efforts to educate them on the laws for spending tax money.
At least one in five of the multimillion-dollar public contracts approved by local or state governments were faulty, according to figures compiled by the Office of the State Comptroller.See the full content of this document
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Errors Rampant in Public Spending
Towns and agencies botched 126 of the 553 multimillion-dollar contracts drafted between July 2010 and June and reviewed by the comptroller. During that time, state spending hit $28.3 billion, and towns handled $12.2 billion in property-tax revenues, much of it on discretionary goods and services.
That track record of mistakes also contradicts assurances by heads of municipal and county lobbying groups that local offic...See the full content of this document
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