Sentences with phrase «called for an audit»

SHINSEKI SUBPOENAED, CALLS FOR AUDIT AT ALL CLINICS... Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki has ordered a «face - to - face audit» at all Department of Veterans Affairs clinics, a spokeswoman told CNN on Thursday.

Mayor calls for audit of school district's practices relating to Green Acres Mall payments Valley Stream Mayor Edwin Fare on Nov. 30, 2016, called on the state comptroller to audit a village school district, saying the district's budgeting practices relating to payments it received from the Green Acres Mall may be the cause of hundreds of dollars in tax hikes for residents.

According to the Electoral Commission, the setting up of the panel follows petitions it received and calls from some political parties, civil society groups and a number of Ghanaians for a new voters» register, with others calling for an audit of the register instead, all with a view to ensuring a credible voters» register for 2016 and beyond.

NYPIRG also called for an audit of the New York City Board of Elections, echoing plans announced by Comptroller Scott Stringer to do so.

He has called for an audit of the group and its spending.

«Time and time again Welsh Liberal Democrats have called for an audit of Welsh procurement, yet what has the Labour Government done?

In remarks delivered at Granada Hills Charter High School, Greuel called for an audit of LAUSD «to slash non-school site administrative expenses» and a student's bill of rights including access to technology, mental health counselors, arts and a «quality teacher in every classroom.»

In a separate email exchange, Daniels called for an audit of Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis professor Charles Little, who directs the Indiana Urban Schools Association.

Scientist and long - time BOM critic Jennifer Marohasy has been calling for an audit and urging Energy and Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg «to inform the World Meteorological Organisation that the temperatures recorded by our bureau are not consistent with calibration, nor any international standard», and, to «direct the bureau to desist from announcing new record hot days».

«The United Nations, having called for this audit, must take quick and decisive action to ensure that the audit is carried out in full and by a properly trained, reputable and unbiased team of auditors,» says Alice Blondel, Global Witness campaigner.

And now the state's treasurer, Dan Schwarz, is calling for an audit on the government agency that organized the subsidies for FF, as well as Tesla's Gigafactory.

Dan Schwarz, the state treasurer, has called for an audit of the deal and previously referred to Faraday as a Ponzi scheme.

In his prepared statement, Zuckerberg outlined a number of actions Facebook would take to try to prevent other outside parties from exploiting user data — but he also called for an audit of developers who gathered user data in the past.

; and from 5th September «Scullion calls for an audit of $ 25bn».

A resolution recently passed by Philadelphia City Council called for an audit of real estate activity in the city, and a determination of whether business privilege taxes were being paid, and appropriate commercial licenses obtained, by suburban Realtors doing business in the city.

Not exact matches

The FORM Act also calls for an annual GAO audit of the Federal Reserve, doubles the number of times the Fed Chairman testifies before Congress, and makes some other tweaks to the makeup and protocol of the Federal Reserve Board.

«She's calling for a recount to perform the function of an audit.»

Before Warner's call, Senate Intel member Ron Wyden — one of the biggest privacy advocates in Congress — issued a letter to Zuckerberg seeking answers on a number of detailed points on Monday, including how many privacy audits the company has conducted for apps on its platform and if Facebook has ever notified individual users of privacy violations of this nature.

Audit agency calls out state - run network for personnel incentives and allowances, costs on delayed and non-existent projects

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They are also calling for the auditor general to do mandatory performance audits of the Commons and Senate every three years.

Facebook sent members of a digital forensics firm, called Stroz Friedberg, to perform its own independent audit of Cambridge Analytica, but Stroz Friedberg «stood down» when UK authorities requested they wait until a warrant is secured for the ICO's own criminal investigation.

A government watchdog agency alleges that insurer Health Net of California has refused to cooperate in a security audit called for under a federal contract.

Faulty practices by debt collectors spur calls for a massive audit.

Ever since Ron Paul first introduced it in 2009, the «Federal Reserve Transparency» Act, calling for the elimination of the Federal Reserve System's exemption from certain kinds of GAO audits, has been the subject of vigorous debate between proponents of greater government accountability and champions of an independent Federal Reserve.

If the athletic director has to hunt around for the forms or call the coach, you've got at best a storage problem and at worse a monitoring problem in your athletic department - and you haven't even audited the forms themselves yet!

The Legislature has been trying to get a handle on the MTA for years now, calling for everything from forensic audits to increased oversight while also repeatedly infusing it with cash to keep it afloat.

A draft of an audit being prepared by the Office of the New York State Comptroller calls into question the budget and spending policies of the City of Niagara Falls and warns of potentially dire financial circumstances for the Cataract City unless officials there «take immediate steps» to get their financial house in order.

City Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who's also the chairman of the council's Transportation Committee, called for a «line - by - line audit» of the MTA, to see how it spends money allocated for track maintenance.

[62] She called for «a profound culture change and radical legislation» to close the pay gap, and recommended measures to require companies where women make a successful complaint of pay discrimination to audit their practices and implement plans to ensure that men and women are paid equally for equal work.

A draft of an audit being prepared by the state comptroller calls into question the budget and spending policies of the City of Niagara Falls and warns of potentially dire financial circumstances for the Cataract City unless its officials «take immediate steps» to get their financial house in order.

He pulls no punches: the Audit Commission (now effectively abolished), the NAO and ministers who seek evidence to support predetermined policies («spray - on evidence», as civil servants call it) are dismissed for closing their minds to the evidence of failed methods or the possibility of different approaches.

As taxpayers struggle to make ends meet — including affording the ever - increasing MTA fares — and the governor and legislature are working to control state spending and make our state fiscally solvent, the MTA just disregards reality,» said Rabbitt, who has been a vocal and leading advocate for reforming the MTA, and was a driving force behind the repeal of the MTA payroll tax, having called for a fiscal audit of the authority and its board.

Altschuler spokesman Rob Ryan said Bishop's team should wait for the Board of Elections to complete its 3 percent audit of voting machines and count absentee ballots before calling for a hand recount.

In a letter to Comptroller Joseph Timpano, Picente called for «a full financial and compliance audit of the Oneida County Board of Elections to be performed by an outside auditor or firm.

The review will examine NYRA's response to two earlier comptroller audits, which called for significant cost reductions, including salaries and consultant fees, DiNapoli's office said.

Antonacci, who appeared to be skeptical of the report's figure, called for the savings identified in the report to be vetted and audited before heading to go ballot.

During the NYCHA discussion at the debate, Stringer touted his many audits of the housing authority and called for new funding streams, including his push for tens of millions of dollars in Battery Park City Authority proceeds to go toward NYCHA fixes.

Sir John warns this is a sign of a wider problem of how to measure efficiency across all departments, and calls for much tougher internal audits on this.

But the department's largest component, the Internal Revenue Service, will cease some of its key functions such as audits, examinations of returns, processing of paper returns and call - center operations for taxpayers with questions.

Liu has also not stopped putting out audits of city agencies, recently taking the city Economic Development Corp. to task for mishandling contracts, the city Parks Department for not making repairs in a timely manner and the management of a 911 call center for an inflated budget and growing timeline.

During her press conference outside PS 13, Ms. Malliotakis unveiled her Albany reform agenda, including: Requiring a two - thirds legislative majority to pass new taxes and fees; capping the rise in spending at the rate of inflation or 2 percent, whichever is less; requiring legislators to disclose outside sources of income; requiring public authorities like the MTA to undergo an independent financial audit, and calling for a constitutional convention to address items that have bedeviled the state recently, such as appointing a lieutenant governor and breaking a Senate tie.

But opponents said the part of the IDA policy that calls for random audits goes too far, adding a new bureaucratic burden to businesses getting tax breaks and requiring them to disclose sensitive payroll information.

Oneida County Executive Anthony Picente Jr. today announced that a number of problems have surfaced after a recent independent audit of the Board of Elections that Picente had called for in December.

Its leaders said the expenditures may have dated back years, and called for PEF to approve an independent audit.

New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer called for policies to increase school attendance of homeless children, following an audit that found more than half of students in shelters were chronically absent from public schools.

The Majority in Parliament has called for a full - scale forensic audit into the activities of the Bulk Oil Storage and Transportation Company (BOST), beginning from 2009, as they referred to the minority's stance on the contaminated fuel sale saga as hypocritical.

A 2009 audit report revealed that up to 60 billion Cedis of the tax payer's money taken from the TOR debt recovery levy, the HIPC etc. was used to fund a so called communication strategy which was only a euphemism for a conduit used to siphon state funds into the NPP campaign.

He also called for a «power audit» to ensure that «only where issues are most effectively addressed by collective action, should the EU act».

The cronyism and the claim that, the reports of a possible return of ghost names, are said to have contributed significantly to the bloated number of service personnel on the NSS Payroll, and insiders are calling for a thorough audit of the 66,000 persons.

Both Public Advocate Letitia James — who had said the agency has yet to implement necessary reforms she has proposed — and Comptroller Scott Stringer, whose audit June 2016 audit found that the agency's investigations into child abuse were inconsistent and incomplete, called for an immediate and transparent probe of the case.