Issue Position: Oversight of State Funds

Issue Position

Yet another contribution to the high burden of New Jersey taxpayers is the lack of oversight of state funds. From infrastructure and transportation, education, healthcare, and general aid provided to counties and municipalities, a woeful lack of oversight exists over how these funds are spent, and whether they comply with pertinent state laws, rules, and regulations. Without oversight, wasteful spending ensues as the state has no way to monitor the effects of programming, how programs can be improved, whether established benchmarks are met, and if success was or can be realized.
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Trenton has let taxpayers down time and time again by throwing funds at pet projects without safeguards to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse or to adequately monitor and evaluate programs to determine potential improvement, revision, or cancellation of future projects depending on their success or shortcomings. Funds are provided to entities throughout the state with no document retention policy, which leads to both waste and redundancies. I support and want to expand current legislative proposals that improve transparency of regional and municipal authorities, enhance oversight of those authorities by the State Comptroller, increase opportunities for intervention by the State Auditor, and require records to be preserved.

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