If the Buffalo Comptroller’s Office does not file an audit by 2 p.m. Tuesday of all city employees currently on paid administrative leave, Common Council members say they will ask the State Comptroller’s Office to intervene and conduct the audit.
Council members had asked the report to be submitted by Nov. 14.
Jill Repman, a suspended Buffalo Fire Department clerk, who was paid $600,000 over seven years while on suspension, resigned from her city job effective Nov. 30.
The Council’s Civil Service Committee was informed Dec. 5 by a representative from City Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams’ office that the report was forthcoming.
“We’re finalizing a report right now, and we hope to have it filed for next meeting and will be able to talk about it then,” said Kevin Kaufman, chief auditor with the Comptroller’s Office.
But as of Monday, the report had not been made public. And now one city lawmaker says he feels “brazenly ignored.”
“The comptroller’s staff did come to committee and stated they would have something filed and could be ready next week to talk about it, and I haven’t gotten any correspondence from (Miller-Williams),” said Fillmore Council Mitchell P. Nowakowski, who sponsored the resolution requesting the audit, with a…
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