Niles works on improving accounting system

NILES — The state auditor says the city doesn’t know how many vehicles or computers it has.

That’s because the city lacks an accounting system to identify what capital assets it has and which it has unloaded, according to a recent state audit.

The audit calls this lack of an accurate inventory a “significant deficiency.”

“The capital-asset listing for the water, sewer and electric utilities has not been updated since 1996,” the report said.

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