The city Parking Authority has been ordered to turn over all financial documents from 1995 to the present - including travel and expense reports, bid proposals and contracts and purchase records - to a state grand jury.

A three-page subpoena issued to the agency requests items such as surveillance tapes, documents reflecting outside employment or business interests of authority commissioners and employees, and records of all gifts and rewards to to commissioners and employees, including cash, services and fringe benefits.

The records must be delivered to the grand jury Nov. 15, according to the subpoena, a copy of which was obtained by the Courier-Post.

Anthony Scarduzio, the Parking Authority's executive director, said Friday that he still hadn't seen the subpoena, which was issued Wednesday by the state Division of Criminal Affairs.

When it was read to him over the phone, Scarduzio replied: "Man, that's a lot of stuff."

Scarduzio had been off from work for the week because his niece and his great-nephew died in an arson fire in Gloucester Township on Sunday.

"We'll go through it, and we'll give them whatever they want," Scarduzio said. "Until you see what they're looking at, how can you be worried?"

A spokeswoman for the Criminal Affairs Division confirmed it is investigating the Parking Authority, but refused to comment on the nature of the probe.

The division issued the subpoena less than a week after two agency employees filed a far-reaching civil lawsuit that included allegations of bid-rigging, influence peddling and financial mismanagement.

Scarduzio denied the accusations, saying the employees who filed the suit are disgruntled. One of the plaintiffs, Joseph Bowen, a property manager, was fired in August. The other, Thomas Del Rosario, a systems specialist, was suspended without pay in July pending a hearing.

The Parking Authority is an independent city agency that oversees and operates two garages, 10 lots and 800 meters. The five-member commission that runs the agency is appointed by the mayor and city council.

The agency had been under the state's watch for three years because of corruption and mismanagement, but seemed to be back on track. In 1993, it went $1 million into debt, which forced the state to take it over in September 1994. The state handed over control to the city in 1997.

Scarduzio has served as executive director since.

"I'm surprised about this," said Linda Jones, vice chairwoman of the Parking Authority. "I have no idea why they would want those records."