More than 160 vehicles, hand tools and pieces of equipment in the city’s fleet—from a forklift to dozens of pumps used for work on sewer lines, as well as trailers and other gear—have gone missing, according to a newly released audit by the Department of General Services.

The city’s spending board noted the audit this morning, after requesting that DGS “ensure that the information contained in DGS Fleet Management’s database was accurate and that all assets were properly recorded.” The agency looked into its inventory of 4,294 vehicles and pieces of equipment from early April through July of 2018.

What they found: One hundred and sixty-six assets “were reported as untraceable,” all but 20 of them from the Department of Public Works. The rest were from the Department of Transportation.

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