An Audit of Travel Bills on the Salt Lake County Workplace of Regional Growth – Auditor

April 13, 2026

Report Highlights

Opportunity to Improve the Timeliness of Airfare Purchases
Four of 16 (25%) of the benefit and non-employee journey packets examined had airfare bought lower than 14 days previous to the departure date with out documenting extenuating circumstances, equivalent to emergency journey. The 4 airfare buy dates ranged from 10 to 13 days previous to the departure date. This buy delay might improve the danger of upper airfare prices.

Opportunity to Strengthen Approval Signatures on Request for Travel Allowance Form and Travel Expenditure Report (TER)
In testing the overall inhabitants of benefit and appointed worker journey in 2022, 4 of 16 (25%) journey packets didn’t have a secondary approval signature from the division director or alternate designee on the Request for Travel Allowance Form or Travel Expenditure Report. The absence of secondary approval signatures from a division director or designee on journey types reduces impartial oversight and weakens the separation of duties, thereby growing the danger of fraud, waste, or abuse of County funds.

Opportunity to Strengthen Documentation in GSA Per Diem Rate Application
Our assessment of 16 County worker journey packets from 2022 recognized inconsistencies within the software of U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) per diem charges for meals and incidentals. Two of 16 (12.5%) journey packets used day by day per diem charges that had been beneath the relevant GSA fee, leading to worker reimbursement shortfalls of $10 and $20. Although County coverage permits reimbursement as much as the GSA most, there was no written documentation explaining why sure workers obtained decrease per diem charges. These inconsistencies improve the danger of unequal therapy, inconsistent coverage software, and reduces transparency in worker journey reimbursements.