The Florida Department of Transportation’s financial audit of Suwannee Valley Transit Authority is concluding and Robert E. Clift, inspector general of FDOT, said they are working hard to get a draft final report written.

The audit began Dec. 2, 2013,and focuses on SVTA’s expenditures of funds from Commission Transportation Disadvantaged and the Agency for Health Care Administration, Clift said.

The FDOT is also doing a second audit of expenditures made by SVTA of funds and resources provided by FDOT through their DOT District Two in Lake City. Clift said after the first audit was underway, they decided to also review those expenditures.

“Details related to the second audit will be released in a separate report,” Clift said. “Finalizing the audit work on this second project will begin at a faster pace once the first report is released.

The first report was previously projected to be released in September, however, the depth of data has proven to be cumbersome.

“There’s a lot of data to display and the data has to be summarized in succinct narrative as well. We are striving to do our best writing so the reader can clearly see what we believe took place,” said Clift. “In short, it’s a detailed assignment.”

After the draft report is completed, the next step, Clift said, is specified by Florida Statute; they have to send it to the SVTA for a 20 day review and comment period.

“They may or may not decide to comment, their option,” said Clift. “If they do comment, we need to see if their comment would logically support any additional audit steps, and complete those. If not, we include their comment in our report and publish final.”

Clift said when the report is complete, it will be posted on their website and available for public viewing.