The Association of Local Government Auditors, which has members in the United States and Canada, has given the Erie County comptroller’s office an award for its audit of the Erie County Holding Center.

The comptroller’s office won the 2007 Bronze-level Knighton Award for small auditing departments. Comptroller Mark C. Poloncarz said his office is the first municipal government auditor in New York to receive a Knighton Award.

The award is named for professor Lennis Knighton, who taught accounting at Brigham Young University and is a past winner of the association’s lifetime achievement award.

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