By Morgan Cook
The Chula Vista Veterans Home’s $50,000 purchase of an industrial boom lift that the home didn’t need and has barely used made the California State Auditor’s annual roundup of unwise, abusive or improper activity in state government.
Officials at the veterans home could have saved thousands of dollars by renting the equipment instead of buying it, according to the audit released Monday. The report identified more than $4 million in taxpayer money that could have been saved.
Ten investigations outlined in the report scrutinized matters such as improper recycling of copper wire, an engineer paid when he was golfing and overpayment of three Department of Corrections psychologists by $96,000.
The Chula Vista Veterans Home, which is part of the California Department of Veterans Affairs, was the only San Diego-based investigation included in the report.
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