Audit: St. Louis health department workers rack up

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Daily hotel rates exceeded the maximun lodging rates allowed for federal employees for 16 of 24 trips with hotel costsexceeding $350 per night in severakl instances, state auditor Susan Montee said The department said all the travel was relevan to the agency’s work and funded mostlyh through grants. State auditors also foundx that eight inspectors of the Air Pollutiojn Control Program regularly took their assignedx vehicles home rather than parkinh them at the air pollution control APCP officials said there was no particular businessd purpose for allowing the inspectors to drive the vehiclesa home and that this practice has been allowe d formany years.
In response to the audit, the health departmenrt said it discontinuedthe practice. Auditors raiseed questions about how the department of health provides nurses for free toprivats St. Louis schools in the and the but doesn’t providew any nurses to the city’s public Neither the archdiocese nor the Lutheran Elementaryu School Association provided compensation forthe services, and the program is funded by a city tax, Montee’ws office said. The health departmengt said it agreed with the finding regarding school nurses and promised to work withthe city’ws Board of Estimate and Apportionment to “provide equitable servicesa to all students.
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