Audit faults Clallam Transit for oversights in 2005, 2006

PORT ANGELES — Clallam Transit System has corrected three procedural findings in an audit of the bus network’s operations during 2005 and 2006.

The report released Dec. 31 by state Auditor Brian Sonntag and shared with transit commissioners Monday included these criticisms:

  • Clallam Transit awarded bonuses, awards and incentives to employees over and above its own stated rewards for of service, retirements, and employees of the quarter and of the year.

    Gifts totaled $7,615, and incentives — including transit’s annual awards banquet — came to $12, 874.

  • The transit agency continued paying health insurance premiums for three workers who had left the system, two of them for other public jobs covered by the same insurance program and one who retired.

    The health care benefits totaled $29,000, of which $21,462 were “unallowable,” the audit said.

    It added that Clallam Transit should seek reimbursement from the state Public Employee Benefits Board.

  • Of the $815,000 in operating revenue Clallam Transit received in 2006, about $18,300 was not properly documented, although it was not missing.

    The audit recommended that all revenues be recorded with pre-numbered receipts, deposited and posted quickly.

    “There were a couple of policies we should have had in place,” said Terry Weed, Clallam Transit general manager.

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