Legislature(2015 - 2016)HOUSE FINANCE 519
03/30/2015 08:00 AM House LEGISLATIVE BUDGET & AUDIT
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| Approval of Minutes | |
| Executive Session | |
| Other Committee Business | |
| Adjourn |
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ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
March 30, 2015
8:03 a.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Representative Mike Hawker, Chair
Representative Kurt Olson
Representative Lance Pruitt
Representative Steve Thompson
Representative Sam Kito
Senator Anna MacKinnon, Vice Chair
Senator Lyman Hoffman
Senator Bert Stedman
Senator Click Bishop
MEMBERS ABSENT
Senator Cathy Giessel
Senator Pete Kelly (alternate)
Representative Mark Neuman (alternate)
OTHER LEGISLATORS PRESENT
Representative Lora Reinbold
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
EXECUTIVE SESSION
OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION
No previous action to record
WITNESS REGISTER
ACTION NARRATIVE
8:03:44 AM
CHAIR MIKE HAWKER called the Legislative Budget and Audit
Committee meeting to order at 8:03 a.m. Representatives Hawker,
Thompson, and Olson, and Senators MacKinnon, Hoffman, Bishop,
and Stedman were present at the call to order. Representatives
Pruitt and Kito arrived as the meeting was in progress.
Representative Reinbold was also in attendance.
^Approval of minutes
Approval of minutes
8:04:43 AM
CHAIR HAWKER announced that the first order of business would be
the approval of the minutes.
SENATOR MACKINNON made a motion to approve the minutes of
February 26, 2015. There being no objection, the minutes from
the meeting of February 26, 2015 were approved.
SENATOR MACKINNON made a motion to approve the minutes of March
10, 2015. There being no objection, the minutes from the
meeting of March 10, 2015 were approved.
SENATOR MACKINNON made a motion to approve the minutes of March
17, 2015. There being no objection, the minutes from the
meeting of March 17, 2015 were approved.
^Executive Session
Executive Session
8:05:51 AM
CHAIR HAWKER announced that the next order of business would be
an executive session.
SENATOR MACKINNON made a motion to move to executive session
under Uniform Rule 22 for the purpose of discussing confidential
audit and performance review reports under AS 24.20.301. There
being no objection, the committee went into executive session at
8:06 a.m.
8:06:22 AM
The committee took an at-ease from 8:06 a.m. to 8:49 a.m.
8:49:59 AM
CHAIR HAWKER brought the committee back to order at 8:49 a.m.
Representatives Hawker, Pruitt, Thompson, Olson, and Kito, and
Senators Stedman, Bishop, Hoffman, and MacKinnon were present at
the call to order. Representative Reinbold was also in
attendance.
8:50:32 AM
SENATOR MACKINNON made a motion for the final audit for the
Statewide Single Audit Fiscal Year ended June 30, 2014 to be
released to the public. There being no objection, it was so
ordered.
CHAIR HAWKER suggested that these recommendations in the audit
be examined by every legislator as "a guide in a road map to us
doing our job better."
^Other Committee Business
Other Committee Business
8:51:10 AM
CHAIR HAWKER explained that, during executive session, there was
a briefing on a request by the Department of Corrections (DOC)
to redact portions of the previously issued DOC performance
review report. He shared that the report had been currently
removed from the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee website
and would be reinstated once the redaction process was
completed.
8:51:49 AM
CHAIR HAWKER addressed the 10 year fiscal plan, required under
statute, from the Office of Management & Budget (OMB). He
explained that, on December 12, 2014, the chairs of the House
Finance Committee and the Senate Finance Committee were notified
that the administration was planning "to suspend any work on the
agency's 10 year plans until such time as there is a Walker
administration endorsed budget proposal." He acknowledged that,
although this was understood, he was still requesting
information for the plans for completion of this 10 year fiscal
plan. He reported that, on January 15, 2015, he received a note
from Pat Pitney [Director of OMB] requesting a meeting to
discuss completion of the 10 year fiscal plan. He noted that,
at this meeting, he was given assurance that a revised plan
would be submitted shortly after the administration approved a
budget. He shared that he had resubmitted his request for an
updated fiscal plan to OMB on March 23, 2015 and the response
had been that "they have complied with the requirements to
distribute a fiscal plan." He relayed that a preliminary fiscal
plan, prepared by the previous administration, had been posted
on December 15, 2014. He shared that the administration
anticipated the release of an updated version of the 10 year
fiscal plan during the interim, which would incorporate the
April revenue forecast. He expressed his desire to review the
long range financial planning for the state. He offered his
belief that the 10 year fiscal plan was "absolutely the road map
we need to be following to look at what the state's fiscal
situation really is." He declared that he would continue
pursuit of an updated 10 year projection from OMB, in order to
discuss it in coordination with the House and Senate Finance
Committees.
8:54:20 AM
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business before the committee, the
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee meeting was adjourned at
8:54 a.m.
| Document Name | Date/Time | Subjects |
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| Agenda_LBA_30Mar15.pdf |
JBUD 3/30/2015 8:00:00 AM |