Legislature(2011 - 2012)HOUSE FINANCE 519
02/27/2012 08:00 AM House LEGISLATIVE BUDGET & AUDIT
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| Audit Requests | |
| Approval of Minutes | |
| Executive Session | |
| Other Committee Business | |
| Adjourn |
* first hearing in first committee of referral
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
+ teleconferenced
= bill was previously heard/scheduled
ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
February 27, 2012
8:03 a.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Representative Mike Hawker, Chair
Representative Mark Neuman (via teleconference)
Representative Kurt Olson
Representative Bill Thomas
Representative Mike Doogan
Senator Bert Stedman, Vice Chair
Senator Hollis French
Senator Linda Menard
Senator Thomas Wagoner
MEMBERS ABSENT
Representative Scott Kawasaki (alternate)
Representative Bill Stoltze (alternate)
Senator Lyman Hoffman
Senator Kevin Meyer (alternate)
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
AUDIT REQUESTS
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
EXECUTIVE SESSION
OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION
No previous action to record
WITNESS REGISTER
KRISTIN CURTIS, Acting Legislative Auditor
Legislative Audit Division
Alaska State Legislature
Juneau, Alaska
POSITION STATEMENT: Provided information on a request for a
contract for outside audit services and on the independent audit
of the Alaska State Legislature.
ACTION NARRATIVE
8:03:54 AM
CHAIR MIKE HAWKER called the Legislative Budget and Audit
Committee meeting to order at 8:03 a.m. Representatives Hawker,
Olson, Thomas, Doogan, and Neuman (via teleconference) and
Senators French, Wagoner, and Stedman were present at the call
to order. Senator Menard arrived as the meeting was in
progress.
^Audit Requests
Audit Requests
8:04:41 AM
CHAIR HAWKER announced that the first order of business would be
an audit request by Representative Neuman.
8:05:12 AM
REPRESENTATIVE NEUMAN requested an audit of the Alaska Land
Mobile Radio (ALMR) program. He declared that "there's a
substantial amount of money going into this."
8:05:48 AM
CHAIR HAWKER asked if there were any questions.
8:06:07 AM
REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS made a motion to approve Representative
Neuman's request for an audit of the Alaska Land Mobile Radio
(ALMR) program under the Department of Administration. There
being no objection, it was so ordered.
^Approval of minutes
Approval of minutes
8:06:47 AM
REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS made a motion to approve the minutes of
January 23, 2012. There being no objection, the minutes from
the meeting of January 23, 2012 were approved.
^Executive Session
Executive Session
8:07:14 AM
REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS made a motion to go in to executive
session under Uniform Rule 22 for the purpose of discussing
personnel matters and for the purpose of discussing confidential
audit reports under AS 24.20.301. There being no objection, the
committee went into executive session at 8:07 a.m. [Due to
technical difficulties, there was a brief interruption to the
recording. The minutes were reconstructed from the committee
secretary's log notes.]
8:36:27 AM
CHAIR HAWKER brought the committee back to order at 8:36 a.m.
Representatives Hawker, Olson, Doogan, and Thomas and Senators
Stedman, Menard, and Wagoner were present at the call to order.
^Other Committee Business
Other Committee Business
8:36:40 AM
CHAIR HAWKER announced that the next order of business would be
for the nomination of a legislative auditor. He reported that
the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee had undertaken a
recruitment process compliant with state regulations, and had
identified a candidate for nomination and final confirmation,
Kristin Curtis.
8:37:20 AM
REPRESENTATIVE OLSON made a motion to forward the nomination of
Kristin K. Curtis for the position of Legislative Auditor to the
legislature. There being no objection, it was so ordered.
8:38:08 AM
REPRESENTATIVE HAWKER praised Kris Curtis, stating that she had
substantial credentials and that it was "a very comfortable
choice for me to be moving your nomination forward."
8:38:31 AM
CHAIR HAWKER announced that the next order of business would be
a release of the Statewide Single Audit to the agencies for
response.
8:38:41 AM
REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS made a motion for the preliminary audit
for the FY11 Statewide Single Audit to be released to the
appropriate agencies for response. There being no objection, it
was so ordered.
8:39:10 AM
CHAIR HAWKER announced that the next order of business would be
an authorization for a contract for outside audit services.
8:39:15 AM
KRISTIN CURTIS, Acting Legislative Auditor, Legislative Audit
Division, Alaska State Legislature, requested approval of an
amount not to exceed $50,000 to contract for outside audit
services. She clarified that this would be for 450 hours of
work toward the FY12 Statewide Audit.
8:39:45 AM
CHAIR HAWKER noted that this was an annual request for outside
audit assistance. He asked if there were any questions.
8:39:59 AM
REPRESENTATIVE THOMAS made a motion to authorized Kris Curtis,
Acting Legislative Auditor, to enter into a contract for audit
services in an amount not to exceed $50,000. There being no
objection, it was so ordered.
8:40:27 AM
CHAIR HAWKER asked if there was any other committee business.
8:41:04 AM
MS. CURTIS presented the annual independent audit of the Alaska
State Legislature, and stated that nothing of concern was
mentioned "in the letter to those charged with governance."
8:41:27 AM
CHAIR HAWKER asked if there were any questions.
8:41:37 AM
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business before the committee, the
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee meeting was adjourned at
8:41 a.m.
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