AUDIT: HANDLING OF PARKING LOTS 'RIPE FOR ABUSE'.Byline: Dan Laidman Staff Writer Inadequate oversight
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abbreviation for chicken (1). said in an audit released Wednesday. Controls have been so lax LAX - LAnguage eXample. A toy language used to illustrate compiler design. ["Compiler Construction", W.M. Waite et al, Springer 1984]. that attendants at some of the five lots around the El Pueblo El Pueblo (The People) was a Spanish daily newspaper, the central organ of the Syndicalist Party during the 1930s. de Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Historical Monument Anything by which the memory of a person, thing, idea, art, science or event is preserved or perpetuated. A tomb where a dead body has been deposited. In real-property have made it a practice to store cash in their pockets, Chick said. ``I am not implying that city employees are stealing,'' she said. ``I am saying we have an environment that is ripe for abuse.'' El Pueblo, which oversees Olvera Street, has been in transition since Chick released a scathing audit of its financial practices last year. As part of the reform, responsibility for El Pueblo's 385 parking spaces, which generated $1.8 million in revenue last year, were transferred to the city's General Services Department. General Services requested the follow-up audit to complete the transition, said Tony Royster, assistant general manager of the agency. The audit said some progress has been made, but it also raises ``significant concerns about the safeguarding of cash and the proper management of the operations,'' Chick wrote in a letter to top city officials. Auditors found discrepancies between tickets issued and tickets accounted for, as well as days in which revenue varied drastically dras·tic adj. 1. Severe or radical in nature; extreme: the drastic measure of amputating the entire leg; drastic social change brought about by the French Revolution. 2. with no official explanation. The report also cites discrepancies between cash receipts and cash register tapes. Most amounts were small, but one day showed an $855 gap. Royster acknowledged the problems but said many were because funding was delayed for installation of cash-control equipment. General Services has already implemented some of the audit's recommendations, Royster said, including recording ticket sequence and license plate numbers. Chick said she is concerned that similar problems may exist at other municipal parking lots, which provide a significant source of city revenue. While a larger parking audit is not on Chick's agenda for the year, she encouraged general managers of other city agencies to meet to discuss the issue. General Services runs about 30 lots, some in collaboration with agencies like El Pueblo, the Department of Transportation, and the Recreation and Parks Department. The operation of a lucrative lot at Pershing Square downtown will factor into a financial audit of the Department of Recreation and Parks that Chick plans to release today. Dan Laidman, (213) 978-0390 dan.laidman(at)dailynews.com |
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