GERMAN – The Town of German has agreed to corrective actions from the State Comptroller's Office that stem from a three-year audit in which the former town supervisor was found to have wrongly recorded nearly $1 million in revenues for the township.

According to a report released from the NYS Comptroller, town supervisor’s records were incorrect and out-of-date. The report alleges that German’s former supervisor “incorrectly recorded almost $1 million of highway fund revenues and $57,000 of fire protection fund revenues” from 2020 through 2022, missed in part because of the town board’s neglect to conduct its own audit of the supervisor’s records.

The report also notes that the former supervisor didn’t offer a monthly money flow update or budget reports to board members. Moreover, annual financial reports submitted to the state were tardy, and annual accounting records weren’t provided to the town board either.

Poor bookkeeping compromised German’s financial health and transparency of the town’s fiscal standing, according to the report.