Audit Indicates Tallahassee Paid More in Insurance Commissions Than Other Cities

By Staff on April 6, 2014 City, Exclusive, Local, Media Gallery, Photos

The City Auditor has found that over the last ten years the City of Tallahassee has paid a 9.1% broker fee equal to $3.24 million, while other cities, using a more competitive approach to secure insurance coverage has paid 5.1% in broker fees. The audit report indicates that over this period the City of Tallahassee […]

Preliminary Audit Finds Issues with City MBE Program

By Staff on March 6, 2011 Exclusive

Tallahassee Reports has received a preliminary draft of a COT Audit of the City’s Vendor Incentive Programs. Among the findings is that the Minority Business Enterprise Program “structure and operation is based upon outdated policies and statistics and therefore likely does not comply with United States (U.S.) Supreme Court rulings related to race and gender neutral alternatives.”