Who’s minding the gas pumps?
A recent audit by Comptroller Howard Weitzman of Nassau County’s 1,500-vehicle fleet found that because of the County’s lax fuel monitoring system it is almost impossible to tell who pumps gas into County vehicles or what vehicles receive the fuel. The County procedures require that both be identified. Some of the “unusual activity” found in the audit, covering the period January 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008, included: -one driver pumping over 17,000 gallons of fuel over the course of a year; – two different driver fuel cards used to dispense 388 gallons of fuel, even though the employees who had been issued the cards had retired years before; -11 instances where vehicle gas cards were used from vehicles that were no longer in the County’s fleet inventory; -30 instances where driver cards that had been invalidated by the County were used at the pumps; -a case where a maintenance card and a driver card were used three times within seven minutes to pump over 120 gallons of gas. “With a
