The Buffalo Common Council and the public will have to wait at least another week for the long-awaited findings of an investigation by the city comptroller of city employees on paid administrative leave.
However, one city lawmaker says he is not asking the New York State Comptroller’s Office to do the audit that the Common Council initially asked Buffalo Comptroller Barbara Miller-Williams to do.
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.
Fillmore Council Member Mitchell P. Nowakowski said Monday that he would ask state Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli’s office to conduct the audit if Miller-Williams did not provide the detailed report by the start of the Council meeting on Tuesday. But after speaking with Miller-Williams for about an hour and a half before the meeting, Nowakowski decided to just ask DiNapoli’s office to look into the matter further.
“I am asking for the state Comptroller to give a risk assessment if they need to come in for further review of this matter,” Nowakowski said Tuesday.
Miller-Williams said she doesn’t have a problem with any outside resources assisting in this review, “regardless of where he wants to…
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