Fake encumbrances

Reported 1,070,070.03 encumbered with no orders open

$1,070,070.03

Amount in this finding

FGrade F · provisionalWest New York

Fake encumbrances · Verified · Updated 10/03/2026 · 3 documents

The FY2025 report certifies 1,070,070.03 appropriated or encumbered but not yet spent for 07/01/2024 to 06/30/2025, and 0.00 unspent on hand (p1). On 06/30/2025 no purchase order was open on any settlement account. Account 02-213-40-054-022 held 119,868.46 and account -024 held 580,744.57, each with nothing encumbered. The other 369,456.91 sat in the unappropriated reserves, 295,064.82 in 02-214-40-054-022 and 74,392.09 in 02-214-40-054-025. The Town appropriated it as 369,457.00 to account -025 on 07/30/2025, a month after the year closed. The three figures make 1,070,070.03. Apart from legal bills of 117.00 and 99.00, the first order against the money is dated 06/10/2026. Money with no order behind it is not encumbered. And 369,456.91 of it was uncommitted on 06/30/2025, so the books also contradict the 0.00 on hand.