Follow-Up on Department of Water Management’s Material Truck Haul Program

Executive Summary

The audit, published last February, found that many vendors were paid late and/or were underpaid. DWM reports that it has addressed these findings. Specifically:

• To address the findings that in 2011 vendors were underpaid by $612,589 and $10 million in invoices were paid late or remained unpaid more than seven months past the invoice date, DWM now pays all invoices within the 60-day period stated in the contracts and includes a “grand total” in monthly summary accounts for vendors

• To address the finding that 94.8% of signatures confirming delivery or pick-up did not match the list of authorized signatures, DWM created a new authorization signature list for delivery and pick-up confirmation. The OIG concludes that DWM has fully implemented the corrective actions recommended in the MTHP audit last February