SUMMITVILLE — The Summitville Fire Company (the fire department) didn't quite earn the perfect marks the Summitville Fire District (the taxing entity) did in a previous NYS Comptroller's Office audit, but it still turned out well.

Released on Friday, this latest audit found nothing truly worrisome in the fire department's cash receipts and disbursements between January 2015 and October 2016.

“While our audit did not find any significant exceptions,” auditors wrote, “the inadequate internal controls increase the risk that disbursements could be made for non-Company purposes, or receipts collected may not be deposited, and such errors or irregularities may not be detected or corrected.”

Auditors recommended the Company's five-person board audit the treasurer's records annually, compare bank statements and cancelled checks to actual vouchers, and better document the amount of money collected at fundraisers.

Auditors' review of transactions did not turn up anything other than what they termed “minor discrepancies.”

Company President Franklin Doolittle Jr., in a letter included with the audit, replied that the department has already initiated corrective action, including instituting a finance committee to audit the books every quarter and make a report to the board.

Doolittle himself is now comparing bank statements to vouchers and cancelled checks to ensure they match, and a fundraising form has been created to track all cash donations.