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Show AUOII LAUDS USAC EXPENSES CURB Absent Faculty Pay, Student Loans Hit Utah State Agricultural college was complimented Wednesday by the state auditor's office for keeping keep-ing administrative costs down, but criticized for permitting certain cer-tain persons to be carried on the pay roll after leaving the institution. A report of a 2-year audit, made by J. E. Webb and J. H. Vickers, deputies to State Auditor Au-ditor Reese M. Reese, said: "We discovered that in some instances teachers and employes had left the employ of the college, yet salary checks had been issued to them, as usual, and in one particular par-ticular case the individual had been carried on the pay roll for three months after his resignations resigna-tions had been received and checks had been issued for those tliree months." The auditors commented: "This is evidence of a lack of coordination coordin-ation and cooperation between the departments and the secretary's secre-tary's office." They found the college "has an adequate internal check on all of its disbursements," and that the cost of operating the various offices of-fices at the college is 30 to 50 per cent below that of comparable com-parable institutions. "The board of trustees and the president," Messrs. Webb and Vickers said, "were properely aware of their basic responsibility responsibil-ity to agriculture, as indicated by their distribution and allotment of funds. There was convincing evidence of a high sense of responsibility, res-ponsibility, as well as exceptional exception-al efficiency through the financial office. The present audit supports, on these points, the reports ' of Dast audits of the college." Among recommendations made by the auditors were: That all members of the board of trustees be bonded, as well as all others responsible for money and equipment;, equip-ment;, that field house bonds be called July 1, 1945, and refunded at a lower rate of interest; that vaults be built in both secretary's and registrar's offices to hold valuables; val-uables; that fire hose he replaced in brackets on upper floors of the main college building; that better care be taken of caps and gowns, and that water be taken from a canal to water lawns, thus preventing pre-venting the necessity of paying a higher fee for culinary water for this purpose. "In checking the cards of out-of-state students to ascertain if they had paid' the required extra tuition fee of $53," the auditors continued, "we ran across a number of cards with letters attached, at-tached, written by one of the members of the board of trustees, suggesting that- because of certain requirements with which he had complied that the student be en. titled to enter the school as a Utah student, thus releasing him from paying the out-of-state fee. We suggest that such cases should be acted upon by the board of trustees at its, regular session and not by just one board member." The auditors recommended that authority of the trustees be ob- tained to write off the books students stu-dents notes against which the statute of limitations has run. "We also found," they said, "that the practice still exists whereby students obtain two or even three loans during the term, then leave the school without paying the notes. This practice should ' be discontinued. The auditors strongly urged that action be taken to compel a certain "Ogden attorney" to make payment to the school of collections collec-tions he obtained on certain student stu-dent notes. |