Audit of Roxbury Community College (RCC)

This is a state performance audit of Roxbury Community College, focused mainly on whether it fixed earlier problems involving the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center.

“I am pleased to provide this performance audit of Roxbury Community College.”

Auditors checked whether the college corrected problems found in an earlier audit, including rentals, fees, contracts, background checks, and purchasing.

“In this performance audit, we examined whether RCC had taken corrective measures to address the issues identified in OSA’s prior audit (No. 2012-0204-3S) regarding the rental process and related fees for events at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center (RLTAC), the administration of RLTAC employee contracts, the performance of Sex Offender Registry Information (SORI) checks, and the purchasing and receipt of goods.”

The problems matter because weak records and controls can mean lost public money, improper charges, contract overpayments, and safety risks.

“Without retaining this supporting documentation and completely documenting its rental process for all RLTAC events, RCC increases the risk that RLTAC could miss a step in the rental process, which may result in a loss of funds.”

If you are a taxpayer, student, parent, athlete, or community member, this affects how a public college manages public money and a public athletic facility.

“RLTAC is an indoor track facility at 1350 Tremont Street, Roxbury Crossing, owned by the Commonwealth and governed by RCC.”

The report recommends that RCC keep complete records, stop improper charges to public high school track leagues, monitor contracts, and run required sex offender checks.

“RCC should ensure that SORI checks are conducted for all RLTAC employees and for all newly hired RLTAC employees from now on.”

The most concrete money findings were $96,450 improperly charged to public high school track leagues and $28,967 in employee contract overpayments.

“The overpayments totaled $28,967 ($16,945 for fiscal year 2018 and $12,022 for fiscal year 2019) and applied to six RLTAC contract employees.”

RLTAC means the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center; SORI means a sex offender registry check; an external event means an event run by an outside group, not RCC.

“External events are events held at RLTAC by organizations and groups that are not controlled by RCC; internal events are held by departments within RCC.”