The Office of the Comptroller of Puerto Rico issued a qualified opinion on the fiscal operations of the Driver Services Center (CESCO) of Utuado. A qualified opinion is issued when noncompliances, individually or in the aggregate, are significant but not pervasive.
The Report reveals that at the CESCO of Utuado periodic physical inventories are not conducted, nor is a perpetual inventory maintained of valuables such as registration stickers, new license plates, inspection certificates, and others. In addition, contrary to current laws, the director performs conflicting functions of requesting and receiving valuables while also keeping and dispensing them.
The director of the CESCO certified that they had 7,043 returned license plates to dispose of. Our auditors checked the storage shed and found it crammed with undisposed license plates, both in and out of boxes (see photo in Exhibit 1 of the Report). In addition, since 2015, these are not sent to the offices of the Driver Services Directorate (DISCO) as provided by Procedure OP-04-2006.
The three-finding audit notes that the documents for the cancellation of fines, transfers, vehicle registrations, and others were found unfiled, in boxes on the floor of the warehouse, which also has seepage problems (see photo in Exhibit 2 of the Report). In addition, the files for the scrap liens and the motor vehicle registration transactions could not be located. This situation, contrary to current regulations, limited the scope of our oversight effort.
The Report indicates that as of July 18, 2017, the director of the CESCO had not designated a deputy property custodian. This position is responsible for collaborating with the property custodian and reporting to her in everything related to the management of the CESCO's property. The Report covers the period from January 1, 2014 to September 14, 2018
This contains the results of the audit we conducted at the Department of Transportation and Public Works, Driver Services Directorate, Driver Services Center of Utuado to determine whether the fiscal operations were carried out in accordance with the applicable law and regulations.
See the Audit Report DA-19-19.
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