The employees were over-paid under a retirement incentive available to employees who retired before July 2018. It was supposed to range from $5,000 for employees with at least 10 years of service to $8,000 for more than 20 years.
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All three employees should have received $5,000, but got $10,000, the audit found. One employee paid the money back, and a finding for recovery — an order that improperly spent public funds be returned — was issued for the other two employees and Huffman, as treasurer.
“Both those retirees have been cooperating and we’re working through that repayment process,” Huffman said. “We expect full repayment.”
The audit also found Miami Valley CTC wasn’t notifying the US Department of Education when students receiving financial aid stopped attending school. It says 78 students graduated and 21 withdrew or failed to enroll in fiscal year 2018, but the CTC didn’t notify the DOE until November 2018 “due to a lack of controls over student enrollment reporting procedures.”
The third finding related to improper calculations in the CTC’s annual financial statements.
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