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Collier County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Office of Inspector General
3315 Tamiami Trail East, Ste. 316
Naples, FL 34112
Phone: (239) 252-8412
Email: Inspector General

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Collier County Clerk of the Circuit Court
Office of Inspector General
3315 Tamiami Trail East, Ste. 102
Naples, FL 34112-5324

 

 

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Collier County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller
Division of Inspector General
Results Table for Audits, Reviews and Investigations as Indicated
Year 2022
Reports Description Total Transactions Total Amount of Transactions Questioned Costs Taxpayer Savings Findings or Recommendations Type of Engagement
2022.26 Administrative Report Items Reviewed as Per Annual Report 78 $2,606,020.56 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2022.25 Inquiry Regarding ATV Park Funds 20 $3,092,302.48 $44,638.66 N/A 1 Contract Oversight
2022.24 Library Uncollectible Accounts Write-Off 20,885 $65,260.15 $65,260.15  N/A  5 Contract Oversight
2022.23 Allegedly False Court Documents Filed with the Clerk’s Office 5 N/A N/A  N/A  1 Investigation
2022.22 Unannounced Cash Audit BCC Libraries 1,271 $281,063.97 N/A  N/A  11 Audit
2022.21 Pay $89 for a Copy of a Deed? 1 $89.00 $89.00  N/A  2 Investigation
2022.20 Hurricane Hardening & Sales Surtax 3 $7,622,979.00  N/A   N/A  N/A Contract Oversight
2022.19 Unannounced Cash Audit Clerk Satellite Offices  17,024 $275,849,029.86 N/A  N/A  9 Audit
2022.18 Annual Report on Guardianship Audits  524 $95,624,661.53 N/A  N/A  N/A Guardianship
2022.17 Cybersecurity Awareness Month/ Quit Claim Deeds  5 $664,600.00 $664,600.00 N/A 1 Investigation
2022.16 Callahan Dual Employment 342 $7,456,959.60 $257,707.48 $28,764.46 3 Investigation
2022.15 Arrest of PACE Contractor  78 $1,856,505.00 $388,070.00 N/A 1 Investigation
2022.14 Fraudulent COVID Assistance Applications  59 $1,016,436.66 $1,016,436.66 $1,013,236.66 58 Investigation
2022.13 Jury Scam Alert 1 $500.00 $500.00 $500.00 1 Investigation
2022.12 Transition of Sports Complex Concessionaire 15 $1,702,320.87 $187,702.58 $15,957.45 2 Contract Oversight
2022.11 First Bank CID Incentive Program Payments    1 $37,949.98 N/A N/A 2 Contract Oversight
2022.10 Does the Clerk Audit Not-For-Profit Entities? 6 $575,000.00 $575,000.00 $575,000.00 2 Investigation
2022.09 National Whistleblower Appreciation Day / 2022 Stats 141 $3,548,724.50 $3,548,724.50 $14,000.00 N/A Investigation
2022.08 Review of Use of FMLA/Baby Bonding 117 $128,279.47 $11,180.77 N/A 1 Audit
2022.07 Review of Potential Outside Employment 25 $68,174.88 $0.00 N/A 3 Audit
2022.06 Sick Leave Pay of County Manager 22 $308,283.59 $57,743.87 $50,694.55 2 Contract Oversight
2022.05 Substitution of Agenda Items After Approval of Original Item 50 $18,761,612.29 $5,631,969.44 N/A 12 Contract Oversight
2022.04 Complaint Regarding Seed to Table Parking Lease Agreement  1 $20,000.00 $20,000.00 N/A 2 Investigation
2022.03 Self-Insurance Fund Transfers to the General Fund 14 $11,550,000.00 $9,009,918.00 N/A 4 Contract Oversight
2022.02 One Time Payments 9,645 $70,264,995.09 $161,771.87 N/A 3 Audit
2022.01 Summit Orthopedic Technologies BIGPI Incentive Program Payment    29 $37,500.00 $37,500.00 $37,500.00 2 Contract Oversight
Year 2021
Reports Description Total Transactions Total Amount of Transactions Questioned Costs Taxpayer Savings Findings or Recommendations Type of Engagement
2021.28 Administrative Report Items Reviewed as Per Annual Report 166 $1,475,981.12 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2021.27 Florida Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles (FL HSMV) Data Exchange 612 N/A N/A N/A 5 Audit
2021.26 Area Median Income Analysis 3 N/A N/A N/A 1 Contract Oversight
2021.25 Termination Pay of Deputy County Manager 9 $68,143.99 $29,946.34 N/A 1 Contract Oversight
2021.24 Clerk’s Information Security Policy Assessment 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A Audit
2021.23 Review of the Use of $20 Million in Bond Proceeds 4 $20,000,000.00 $3,145,000.00 N/A 2 Contract Oversight
2021.22 Potential Use of a Debarred Vendor 4 $437,272.25 $31,500.00 N/A 3 Contract Oversight
2021.21 First Bank CID Incentive Program Payments 2 $75,899.96 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2021.20 Write-Off of Missing Items from County Asset Inventory 181 $19,369.09 $11,630.00 $11,630.00 1 Contract Oversight
2021.19 FGCU Contract with Naples Accelerator 11 $240,721.46 $114,450.66 $727.20 8 Contract Oversight
2021.18 Procurement and Delivery of Sports Complex Food Truck 1 $184,320.00 $7,693.00 N/A 4 Contract Oversight
2021.17 CARES Grant Results of Investigative Reviews 4 $216,749.99 $200,000.00 $180,000.00 2 Investigation
2021.16 Clerk Appointed to Guardianship Improvement Task Force 704 $171,792,834.84 N/A N/A N/A Guardianship
2021.15 National Whistleblower Appreciation Day is July 30 42 N/A N/A N/A N/A Investigation
2021.14 Arthrex CID Incentive Program Payments 2 $512,032.77 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2021.13 Home Solicitation Sales Permit Applications 20 $1,425.00 N/A N/A N/A Investigation
2021.12 Analytic Review for Duplicate Payments 59,980 $873,049,188.13 $13,696.12 $5,788.52 6 Audit
2021.11 Update on Collier County’s One-Cent Sales Surtax 8 $27,462,593.00 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2021.10 CARES Grant Audit Procedures 1,472 $16,758,759.04 $1,622,718.52 $19,700.00 4 Audit
2021.09 Final Payment of Former County Manager 25 $355,987.09 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2021.08 Private Citizen’s Complaint Against a Clerk’s Employee 2 $506.00 N/A N/A N/A Investigation
2021.07 Prepaid Debit Card Fraud Scheme 5 $1,800.00 $1,800.00 N/A N/A Investigation
2021.06 Fraud Scheme Using Clerk’s Bank Information 1 $1,500.00 $1,500.00 N/A N/A Investigation
2021.05 Pelican Bay Elections 6,975 $10,256.61 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2021.04 Mental Health Facility Site Options 5 $165,956,075.60 N/A N/A 5 Contract Oversight
2021.03 Real Property for Disposal 14 $379,169.00 N/A N/A 2 Contract Oversight
2021.02 Analytical Review of Employee and Vendor Relationships 51 $231,879.50 N/A N/A N/A Audit
2021.01 Financial Impact of Park Facilities 2 $245,443,100.00 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
Year 2020
Reports Description Total Transactions Total Amount of Transactions Questioned Costs Taxpayer Savings Findings or Recommendations Type of Engagement
2020.24 Administrative Report Items Reviewed as Per Annual Report 112 $4,810,033.30 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2020.23 Annual Guardianship Report 564 $118,968,202.59 N/A N/A 8 Guardianship
2020.22 ACH Fraud Attempts 6 $514,924.94 $184,543.85 N/A 1 Investigation
2020.21 Review of Hurricane IRMA Shelter Expenses 7,075 $3,038,486.72 $880,410.49 $770,931.77 6 Contract Oversight
2020.20 What is TIF and How Does it Fund CRAs and Innovation Zones? 27 N/A N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2020.19 Update on Collier County’s One-Cent Sales Surtax 12 $81,735,267.00 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2020.18 Contribution Agreement with Uline Inc. 1 $1,440,000.00 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2020.17 CARES Grant Audit Procedures 731 $2,510,147.83 $34.29 N/A 1 Audit
2020.16 CARES Grant Results of Investigative Reviews 13 $63,378.16 $6,000.00 $6,000.00 1 Investigation
2020.15 Payment Delays Related to Newspaper Vendor 71 $94,132.33 N/A N/A 4 Contract Oversight
2020.14 Private Citizen Complaint Regarding Collier Contractor 6 $68,000.00 N/A N/A N/A Investigation
2020.13 Complaint Regarding Late Payments to Subcontractors 20 $28,000,000.00 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2020.12 ACI Worldwide Incentive Claims Paid to DEO 3 $39,260.41 N/A N/A N/A Contract Oversight
2020.11 Comments to 2020 Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan (CEMP) 1 N/A N/A N/A 8 Contract Oversight
2020.10 Vendor Complaint Regarding Late Payments 40 $400,000.00 N/A N/A 3 Contract Oversight
2020.09 Unannounced Audit of Cash Imprest Funds 26 $23,000.00 $39.65 N/A 7 Audit
2020.08 Review of Bariatric Ambulance Purchase 1 $233,932.00 $233,932.00 N/A 1 Contract Oversight
2020.07 Clerk’s IT Change Management 1 N/A N/A N/A 2 Audit
2020.06 Check Fraud Attempts / Positive Pay (POSPAY) 6 $8,250.00 N/A N/A 4 Investigation
2020.05 Audit of Clerk’s Evidence Vault Inventory 243 N/A N/A N/A 1 Audit
2020.04 Complaint Regarding Grant Application 1 $49,500.00 $49,500.00 $49,500.00 1 Contract Oversight
2020.03 Review of Initial Year of PACE Program 127 $329,722.44 $329,722.44 N/A 4 Contract Oversight
2020.02 Driver And Vehicle Information Database (DAVID) Controls 773 N/A N/A N/A 1 Audit
2020.01 Florida HSMV User Access Audit 140 N/A N/A N/A 1 Audit
Year 2019 - Prior Internal Audit Reports
Reports Description Total Transactions Total Amount of Transactions Questioned Costs Taxpayer Savings Findings or Recommendations Type of Engagement
2019-10 Estimated Costs Increasing for One-Cent Sales Surtax Projects 61 $68,599,149.00 N/A N/A 0 Contract Oversight
2019-9 Naming Rights Contract 21 $182,501.24 $68,017.20 $458.98 6 Contract Oversight
2019-8 Transfer of EII Assets to Collier County Control 200 $1,827,177.15 $898.01 N/A 2 Audit
2019-7 Investigative Review of Fraudulent Tax Deed Surplus Payments 2 $25,253.96 $12,652.88 N/A 0 Investigation
2019-6 Clerk’s Annual Report on Guardianships 530 N/A N/A N/A 0 Guardianship
2019-5 Observation of Collier Area Transit Bus Purchase 1 $452,326.00 $1,150.00 N/A 1 Contract Oversight
2019-4 Complaint re Naples Accelerator Participant 2 $18,300.00 $18,300.00 $18,300.00 2 Investigation
2019-3 Johnson Controls Pricing and Contractual Issues 40 $1,322,110.76 $199,461.18 $12,397.04 8 Contract Oversight
2019-2 Driver and Vehicle Information Controls 1,544 N/A N/A N/A 0 Audit
2019-1 Arthrex Job Creation Investment Program 1 $66,666.66 N/A N/A 0 Contract Oversight

Combined Yearly Totals

Number of Transactions: 133,070

Amount of Transactions: $2,342,634,535.41

Questioned Costs: $28,843,409.61

Taxpayer Savings: $2,811,086.63

Findings or Recommendations: 245

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Outreach

Collier County Clerk of the Circuit Court & Comptroller
Division of Inspector General
Table of Training, Educational and Outreach Reports
Year 2022

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Reports Description Total Transactions Total Amount of Transactions Questioned Costs Taxpayer Savings Recommendations Area
2022.H Make Sure Your Year-End Donations are Going as Intended N/A  N/A N/A N/A 10 Investigation
2022.G Future Debt Service for Paradise Coast Sports Complex 1 N/A N/A  N/A  2 Contract Oversight
2022.F International Fraud Awareness Week / OIG Fraud Training  40 N/A N/A N/A N/A Investigation
2022.E After the Hurricane, Beware of Scams  N/A  N/A N/A  N/A  7 Investigation
2022.D Adopted BCC Fiscal 2023 Budget Totals $1.9 Billion 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A Audit
2022.C Update on Collier County’s One-Cent Sales Surtax 6 N/A N/A  N/A  N/A Contract Oversight
2022.B CRAs and Innovation Zones 6 N/A  N/A   N/A  N/A Contract Oversight
2022.A Local Option Motor Fuel Taxes 67 N/A N/A  N/A  N/A Contract Oversight
Combined Yearly Totals
Number of Transactions: 121
Amount of Transactions: $0.00
Questioned Costs: $0.00
Taxpayer Savings: $0.00
Findings or Recommendations: 19