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MRC should improve its monitoring controls to ensure staff check the debarment status of contractors before awarding or renewing contracts.

The lack of documentation calls into question whether all the $91,852,881 in services were properly delivered.

State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump appointed Mr. Brent Benson to fill a vacancy on the Oversight Council for the Center for Health Information and Analysis (CHIA). Benson will serve the remainder of an unexpired five-year term until September 2025.

DCR is responsible for ensuring that woman workers and minority workers, as well as minority-owned business enterprises (MBEs) and woman-owned business enterprises (WBEs), are fairly represented and included in its construction projects.

The increase in identified fraud is largely attributable to an increase in pre-pandemic levels of cases referred by the public benefits agencies for investigation and emanating from its own data analytics unit.

State Auditor Suzanne M. Bump urges lawmakers to improve the fiscal relationship between municipalities and state government

The Women Veterans’ Network had only identified approximately 6% of the approximately 25,000 women veterans living in Massachusetts.

Net state tax revenues for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 are above the allowable state tax revenues by the amount of $2,941,499,731.

The audit recommends that MSBA develop written policies and procedures for staff members to follow when evaluating and prioritizing applications submitted by school districts, in an effort to enhance transparency of decision making.

The audit faulted Berkshire Community College (BCC) for maintaining inadequate documentation for some of its funding.