St. Lawrence-Lewis BOCES received a clean audit from the state comptroller’s office.

The audit aimed to evaluate the accuracy of BOCES payroll, which makes up about 39 percent of its budget. That amounts to $23 million of the total $59.3 million budget.

“BOCES officials established and adhered to good procedures for processing and verifying payroll payments. BOCES’ procedures for authorizing new employees (by the Board), entry of employees and salary into the payroll system (by human resources staff), payroll processing (by the payroll clerks) and payroll review and certification (by the Superintendent) provided adequate segregation and oversight of payroll transactions to ensure that the employees we reviewed were accurately paid at Board-authorized rates,” the audit report said.

“We commend BOCES officials for designing and implementing adequate payroll procedures to ensure that employees were accurately paid the salaries and wages to which they were entitled.”

Superintendent Thomas Burns replied to the audit with praise for staff and the comptroller’s office.