00                   SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 22                                                                   
01 Relating to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee for the Alaska Land Mobile                                        
02 Radio Project.                                                                                                          
03 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
04       WHEREAS the Alaska Land Mobile Radio Project has been established as a two-way                                  
05 radio system for responding to emergency situations throughout the state; and                                           
06       WHEREAS the Alaska Land Mobile Radio Project is a joint project of the federal                                  
07 government, the state government, and local governments; and                                                            
08       WHEREAS the state's legislative audit division conducted a performance audit of the                             
09 state's implementation of the Alaska Land Mobile Radio Project; and                                                     
10       WHEREAS the report by the legislative audit division was critical of the state's                                
11 management of the Alaska Land Mobile Radio Project and identified certain deficiencies that                             
12 resulted from uncoordinated and inconsistent management of the project; and                                             
13       WHEREAS the legislature is concerned about the management of the Alaska Land                                  
14 Mobile Radio Project, including how state money is being spent on the project;                                          
15       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature establishes the Joint Legislative                              
16 Oversight Committee for the Alaska Land Mobile Radio Project to review the management of                                
01 and expenditures for the Alaska Land Mobile Radio Project; and be it                                                    
02       FURTHER RESOLVED that the oversight committee shall begin its functions on                                      
03 the last day of the Second Regular Session of the Twenty-Fourth Alaska State Legislature and                            
04 shall terminate March 15, 2007; and be it                                                                               
05       FURTHER RESOLVED that the oversight committee shall be composed of six                                          
06 members as follows:                                                                                                     
07            (1)  two members of the legislature who are members of the majority caucus in                                
08 the senate and who are appointed by the president of the senate;                                                        
09            (2)  two members of the legislature who are members of the majority caucus in                                
10 the house of representatives and who are appointed by the speaker of the house of                                       
11 representatives;                                                                                                        
12            (3)  one member who is a member of the minority caucus in the senate and                                     
13 who is chosen by the members of the minority caucus of the senate; and                                                  
14            (4)  one member who is a member of the minority caucus of the house of                                       
15 representatives and who is chosen by the members of the minority caucus in the house of                                 
16 representatives; and be it                                                                                              
17       FURTHER RESOLVED that the oversight committee may meet during the interim                                       
18 between sessions and that oversight committee members are entitled to per diem and travel                               
19 expenses; and be it                                                                                                     
20       FURTHER RESOLVED that the oversight committee shall submit a report of its                                      
21 findings to the legislature on or before March 15, 2007.