Corrections Agency Passes Fiscal Review
An audit of Ventura County’s corrections agency found that some minor accounting adjustments should be made to improve operations but that there were no major fiscal problems, officials said Wednesday.
“We didn’t find anything to get uptight about,” said Auditor-Controller Thomas O. Mahon, whose office conducted the financial review.
The Corrections Services Agency, which has an annual budget of $19.7 million and 350 employees, provides detention and probation services to people referred by the courts or county schools system.
Although the audit found that the agency had properly managed cash receipts, it concluded that the agency’s accounting of its petty cash and change funds at the Colston Youth Center in Ventura was not properly established.
Mahon’s report said the two funds, which combined amount to $250, were set up without going through the auditor-controller’s office first.
The report also found that the agency did not take discounts offered by vendors in any of the 25 invoices reviewed by the auditor-controller. The discounts amounted to $100.
Mahon said corrective actions are already being taken by the agency, and therefore no formal recommendations were made by his office.
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