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Court to examine voter signatures in Jones Library project >Published: 7/21/2021 6:53:30 PM
NORTHAMPTON A Hampshire Superior Court judge will examine signatures on a voter veto petition to bring the Jones Library expansion and renovation project to a townwide referendum vote on Nov. 2.
In a memorandum of decision and order in the case brought against the town’s Board of Registrars by 40 voters, most of whom had their signatures rejected when reviewed by the town clerk’s office last spring, Judge Richard J. Carey wrote that “the clerk shall schedule an in-person evidentiary hearing” Aug. 23 starting at 10 a.m.
But Carey also left the door open for the affected voters to make an appeal to the secretary of state with their motion for summary judgment, and his order, “so that the secretary may determine whether he wishes to intervene in this matter.”
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Water Survey Begins Monday for Non-Residential Building Owners in Pittsfield
In an effort to find cross-connection issues in non-residential buildings utilizing the city’s water supply, Pittsfield is launching a survey starting this coming Monday. The cross-connection control survey is targeting non-residential buildings tapped into the Pittsfield water supply.
According to a post on the City of Pittsfield Facebook page, the survey will help locate sites that may have cross-connection issues that have not been previously identified in previous testing rounds.
The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection and the Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR), Chapter 310, Section 22.22(3)(c) require the survey that will be conducted by reps from the Water Services Group throughout the city. Building proprietor’s will be required to fill out a questionnaire and do a walk-through with a Water Services rep to identify any potential concerns according to the post. If you
Conclusion
Do OCY’s non-payroll purchase-of-service (POS) state contract expenses comply with Sections 1.04(1) and 1.05 of Title 808 of the Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR)?
Yes
To achieve our audit objective, we gained an understanding of the internal controls we determined to be relevant to the objective by reviewing agency policies and procedures, as well as conducting interviews with OCY’s staff and management. We evaluated the design and implementation, and tested the operating effectiveness, of controls over non-payroll expenditures associated with OCY’s POS contracts. We also conducted further audit testing, as described below.
Non-payroll POS State Contract Expenses
Our total population included 39,681 non-payroll POS expenditures, totaling $15,690,025. We judgmentally selected a sample of 30 non-payroll POS contract expenditures, totaling $55,804, that included all expenditures greater than or equal to $1,000 from three expense categories: training, co