· To secure capital funds for public schools, Comptroller Liu successfully lobbied Congress for a 100percentt subsidy rate for Qualified School Construction Bonds (QSCBs), which provide a zero-interest cost financing tool for the construction, repair and rehabilitation of the City's public schools.
Besides criticizing Snapple's contract to sell drinks in New York City schools, the comptroller took issue with a "letter of intent," apparently awarded without a formal bidding process, that would grant Snapple and its corporate parent, Cadbury-Schweppes, exclusive rights to sell its products on all municipal property.
Because of the sheer size of the New York City school system, the comptroller has been auditing those schools on an continuing basis.
On Tuesday, spurred by a scandal in the wealthy Roslyn school district, State Comptroller Alan G. Hevesi said his office would conduct in-depth audits of three other Nassau County school districts and one in Suffolk County where reports of improper spending have surfaced.
Luckily, Chief Wiggum accidentally drops his gun, knee-capping the school representative State Comptroller Atkins, who thereafter agrees to reinstate Chalmers because they can recover the money lost in the previous lawsuit with a new lawsuit against the police department.
A sampling of large New York City high schools showed that the schools failed to notify the state of a significant number of violent or disruptive episodes in the 2004-5 school year, the city comptroller announced yesterday.
New York requires 120 minutes a week through sixth grade, and at least 90 minutes a week for seventh and eighth grades, but a recent audit of 31 elementary schools by the city comptroller, John C. Liu, found that none of them were in compliance.
As proposal -- one of four bills recently introduced in the state Legislature to tighten fiscal oversight of public schools -- by Carl L. Marcellino, a Republican state senator from Oyster Bay, calls for the state comptroller to audit school districts every third year.
The state comptroller routinely audited school districts until the 1970s, when budget cuts led the office to limit them to a handful a year.
The bill also allows the state comptroller to audit charter schools, which charter school advocates had resisted.
Of the 628 driving schools in the state, the comptroller's office sampled a third.
