The City of Tacoma paid two employees a total of $17,603 for hours they never worked, according to a letter the city received from the state auditor’s office earlier this month.
According to the letter, sent July 15, discrepancies were found in a 2023 accountability audit. The Office of the Washington State Auditor found the city of Tacoma “did not have adequate internal controls to ensure employees were not paid for time not worked,” specifically in the Tacoma Public Utilities and Public Works department.
In 2023 and 2024, the city was found to have paid an engineering technician in the Public Works Transportation Division $13,350 for hours not worked and also paid $4,253 to an engineering technician in the TPU Power Generation Division for hours not worked, according to the audit…