ALBANY – The Village of
Ossining has approximately $1.8 million in unpaid parking tickets as of
September 30, 2017 and no policies and procedures in place to collect
the money, an audit by the State Comptroller’s Office found.
The study included the period of January 1, 2016 through September 18,
2017.
Tickets have remained on the unpaid parking tickets report for many years
with no additional collection actions, the audit said.
The village should adopt written policies and procedures to collect those
funds and consider additional collection methods for collecting outstanding
tickets, the audit said.
In response to the audit, Village Mayor Victoria Gearity wrote that effective
January 2012, the village court and justice position were dissolved and
the Town of Ossining Justice Court took over the functions of village
court including adjudication and collection of village parking tickets.
The audit, she wrote, gives village officials an opportunity to review
and discuss with town officials ways to “more collaboratively achieve
the recommendations, and increase ticket collections and revenues.”
That could include forwarding remaining unpaid parking tickets to an outside
collection agency, Gearity said.
