JOHNSTOWN - The Fulton-Montgomery Community College Board of Trustees adopted an independent audit on Thursday that singles out numerous instances of the college failing to comply with general municipal law.

The audit says FMCC failed to comply with several requirements that apply to major federal programs.

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The other audit, which was conducted by SUNY, said the college's general ledger has numerous obsolete, invalid and unnecessary accounts, and in some cases, accounts are missing.

The SUNY audit stated poor business and accounting practices, along with a need for more personnel in key roles, as part of the reason the college has a $537,000 operating deficit and a fund balance that has been reduced from $1.3 million to $80,000 over the past five years.

Weinberg and the Fulton County Board of Supervisors asked for the investigative report from SUNY last year because they were aware of the deficit and were concerned about fiscal problems.

FMCC Vice President and Dean John Jablonski says a search process has been started for new positions of an administrator of finance and a director of business affairs as suggested by SUNY officials.

The Ledger Herald

-- Anonymous, May 25, 2002

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The State University of New York blunder
that prompted incorrect and potentially
damaging financial data about former
students to be reported to major credit
bureaus stemed from a Y2K computer
conversion, state officials said Tuesday.

. . .

The mistake happened after the state
agency gave Educational Computer
Systems Inc. (ECSI) of Coraopolis,
Pa., a software contract last year for
approximately $100,000. ECSI, near
Pittsburgh, specializes in data management
software for student loans.

. . .

If the center continued using the old
software, its computers would have used
two-digit data fields reading the year
"00" as 1900. The old software was
developed on an IBM platform at SUNY
around 1971 and updated in 1980.

-- Anonymous, May 25, 2002