The case of the missing memo
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- August
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Someone over at state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli’s office apparently never received an important memo—the one that said Dr. Richard Daines, nominated in January to be state health commissioner, was confirmed by the Senate March 21. One of several audits released by DiNapoli’s office today includes an Aug. 9, 2007 letter addressed to “Antonia C. Novello, M.D., M.P.H., Dr. P.H., Commissioner, Department of Health.” Novello was former Gov. George Pataki’s health commissioner and hasn’t worked for the state in many months.
Granted, Novello was still commissioner when the audit commenced, but a Jan. 16 letter to the Comptroller’s Office responding to the results is signed by Brian Wing, interim executive deputy commissioner of the agency. The topic of the audit was the safety of the state’s community water supply, and the period reviewed was from Jan. 1, 2003 through Aug. 31, 2006. (The audit found there were some issues that needed to be addressed regarding controls over “vulnerabilities” in the water system.)
Time to update those address books.
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Jay Gallagher has covered Albany for Gannett News Service since 1984 and has been Albany Bureau chief since 1989. He`s a native of the Boston area and likes to point out that in this millennium, the score is Red Sox 1 championship, the Yankees 0. 
Cara Matthews has been a statehouse correspondent in the Albany Bureau since August 2005. Prior to that, she covered Putnam County government and politics at The Journal News for nearly five years. Before that, she worked at newspapers in Connecticut and covered the state Legislature for one of them. 
