Legislature(2003 - 2004)
01/15/2004 12:07 PM House BUD
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ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
JOINT COMMITTEE ON LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT
January 15, 2004
12:07 p.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Representative Ralph Samuels, Chair
Representative Mike Chenault
Representative Mike Hawker
Representative Vic Kohring
Representative Beth Kerttula
Representative Reggie Joule, alternate
Senator Gene Therriault, Vice Chair
Senator Ben Stevens
Senator Gary Wilken
Senator Lyman Hoffman
MEMBERS ABSENT
Senator Con Bunde
Senator Lyda Green, alternate
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
EXECUTIVE SESSION
OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
AUDIT REQUESTS
PREVIOUS ACTION
No previous action to record
WITNESS REGISTER
RON SOMERVILLE, Member
of the Board of Game
Juneau, Alaska
POSITION STATEMENT: Commented briefly on navigable waters and
RS 2477s.
ACTION NARRATIVE
TAPE 04-1, SIDE A
Number 0001
CHAIR RALPH SAMUELS called the Joint Committee on Legislative
Budget and Audit meeting to order at 12:07 p.m. Representatives
Samuels, Hawker, Kohring, Chenault, and Kerttula were present at
the call to order. Representative Joule and Senators
Therriault, Ben Stevens, Wilken, and Hoffman arrived as the
meeting was in progress.
^APPROVAL OF MINUTES
REPRESENTATIVE HAWKER made a motion to approve the minutes of
December 12, 2003. There being no objection, the minutes from
the meeting of December 12, 2003 were approved.
^EXECUTIVE SESSION
Number 0025
REPRESENTATIVE HAWKER made a motion to move to executive session
for the purpose of discussing confidential audit reports under
AS 24.20.301. There being no objection, the committee went into
executive session at 12:10 p.m.
REPESENTATIVE SAMUELS brought the committee back to order at
12:50 p.m.
^OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
Number 0059
CHAIR SAMUELS announced that the Joint Committee on Budget and
Audit has contracted with ISER [Institute of Social and Economic
Research] to review the methodology used for The American
Institutes for Research Alaska School District Cost Study report
which will come out on January 30, 2004. Mr. Tuck from ISER
will make a presentation of that report by the first week in
February.
Number 0138
CHAIR SAMUELS said that the veterans' home contract had been let
to ASCG [Arctic Slope Consulting Group], a conglomeration of the
groups that had the previous veterans' home contract, and stated
that progress was being made in that area.
^AUDIT REQUESTS
Number 0200
SENATOR THERRIAULT made a motion for the final audits for the
Special Education Service Agency - sunset audit, and the audit
on the Department of Environmental Conservation Village Safe
Water Program to be released to the appropriate agencies for
response. There being no objection, it was so ordered.
Number 0400
RON SOMERVILLE, member of the Board of Game, stated that he
didn't have any more [information] than the committee had in the
monthly Report of Expenditures and Progress from Tina Cunning,
Nav/Access Program Manager, Department of Fish and Game. He
commented on the 20 rivers in the Tenana Region, but reserved
the rest of his testimony until Ms. Cunning could be contacted
via teleconferencing.
The committee took an at-ease from 12:51 p.m. to 12:53 p.m.
Number 0410
CHAIR SAMUELS, after noting the unsuccessful attempt to contact
Ms. Cunning, stated that he would obtain the information from
Ms. Cunning and distribute it to the committee.
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business before the committee, the Joint
Committee on Legislative Budget and Audit meeting was adjourned
at 12:54 p.m.
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