The Taoyuan City Audit Division found that the Taoyuan Fire Department compiled its self-financing budget for fire vehicles insufficiently, resulting in substandard quantity of various fire trucks, disaster rescue trucks and fire-fighting service cars. Furthermore, at the end of 2014, more than half of the fire vehicles, 59.30% of the fire vehicles administrated by the Fire Department, had been used over the tenure of use. After the Division called for improvements, the Fire Department spent a total of NT$299.74 million (including NT$76 million from a self-financing fund) to purchase 40 fire vehicles in 2015 and 2016. At the end of October 2016, the average percentage of fire vehicles exceeding the tenure of use had been reduced to 37.41%, and the Department expanded the related budget for 2017 to NT$195.6million to replace the fire vehicles.
The New Taipei City Audit Division found that the financial benefit evaluation of the BOT of the New Taipei City Youth Social Housing Project was not comprehensive. After the Division called for improvements, the Urban and Rural Development Department reassessed the financial benefits. It also convinced the contractor to reduce its return on investment and thus to give benefit to vulnerable tenants with rent lower than 80% of the original contracted rent, reducing the amount of housing rentals by NT$45 million every year for the tenants. Subsequently, the Department implemented a regular review of the royalty mechanism in accordance with the Act for the Promotion of Private Participation in Infrastructure Projects to fulfill the policy of social housing.
The Taitung County Audit Office found that the Taitung Fruit and Vegetable Market Company had not computerized its agricultural transactions nor had it actively claimed accounts receivable, raised the deposits from dealers according to the actual transaction volume, and deliberately managed the certificates of permission for dealers. After the Office called for improvements, the Company implemented electronic auction transactions in March 2016, claimed the delinquent accounts, raised the deposits from the dealers properly, and established a management mechanism for the certificates of permission.
The Changhua County Audit Office found that the contractor did not preserve the components of a building properly after dismantling the original construction timbers, stones and old bricks during the rehabilitation of the historical building Lukang Heqi Mansion, administrated by the Changhua County Cultural Affairs Bureau, resulting in the loss of some components of the building and failing to clarify the shortage and claim compensation from the contractor. After the Office called for improvements, the Bureau claimed NT$2.93 million in compensation and the restoration of Lukang Heqi Mansion was completed on July 15, 2016 and opened for visitors on October 30, 2016.