Thursday, June 16, 2005

Joplin center cited in state audit

A failure to record a storage space addition at the Joplin Welcome Center on a timely basis was cited in a state audit of the Missouri Department of Economic Development's Division of Tourism, which was released today.
"The division did not record approximately $45,700 for the cost of the new storage space addition at the Joplin Welcome Center on the capital asset records in a timely matter," the audit said."
"The construction was completed in May 2003 and had not been added to the capital asset records until we brought this to the division's attention in April 2004," the audit said. "The failure to properly record and reconcile property items reduces the control and accountability over capital assets."
Division officials said the information had mistakenly been sent to another division.
The audit also featured criticism of promotional expenditures that the auditors said were trivial.

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