Dive summary:
- The McCommas Bluff Landfill is making big management changes after a recent estimate pegged losses over the past decade due to management errors at around $1.1 million.
- Some of the biggest problems found in the landfill include inadequate controls over cash handling, recordkeeping, and the weighing of trucks entering and leaving the city landfill.
- To fix some of the gaping holes in security, the landfill managers are limiting who can be in contact with cash, change safe combinations regularly, repair broken security cameras and update the software to allow management to track changes made to billing documents.
From the article:
A 42-page audit released in September described an operation wide open for abuse, with inadequate controls over cash handling, recordkeeping, and the weighing of trucks entering and leaving the city landfill. So sloppy were procedures, auditors said, that city employees were ill-equipped to catch cheating haulers.
Mary Nix, the longtime sanitation director, was demoted just before the audit came out.
Addressing the council’s Budget, Audit & Finance Committee, Kinton said the landfill’s new management appeared to be taking the auditor’s findings seriously. ...
