While 400 state employees are on a waiting list to get a parking space in Raleigh, 18 spaces are not assigned to anyone, according to an audit report released last week.
The report, a financial control audit of the Department of Administration, found that the department's parking division was not regularly reviewing and re-allocating spaces. The department is supposed to re-assign a space that is vacant for two months.
A December 2008 report found that 43 spaces had been vacant for three to 15 months.
The agency noted that since February 2006, 1,100 spaces have been lost because of downtown development. Those losses meant that the department could not accurately re-allocate space.
The Department says it can now return to its previously scheduled review of parking spaces. Also it notes that departments are responsible for paying for empty spaces and that since each agency keeps its own waiting list, the auditors figures may be inaccurate.
Document(s):
administration audit.pdf
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Re: Audit: State parking spaces unused
Good to see the State Auditor hard at work. Must have been tough to find 18 parking spaces not assigned to anyone. I bet those 400 state employees who can't find a spot to park each morning are very happy now, their troubles are over. Wonder if we will ever see an auditors report showing that they wasted 18 sheets of paper and no telling how many hours preparing this report?