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04/14/2016 07:30 AM House LEGISLATIVE BUDGET & AUDIT
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| Approval of the Minutes | |
| Executive Session | |
| Interim Report: Status of Board of Certified Direct-entry Midwives Audit Recommendations | |
| Other Committee Business | |
| Adjourn |
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ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE
LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE
April 14, 2016
7:37 a.m.
MEMBERS PRESENT
Representative Kurt Olson
Representative Lance Pruitt
Representative Steve Thompson
Representative Sam Kito
Senator Anna MacKinnon, Vice Chair
Senator Cathy Giessel
Senator Bert Stedman
Senator Click Bishop
MEMBERS ABSENT
Representative Mike Hawker, Chair
Senator Lyman Hoffman
Representative Mark Neuman (alternate)
Senator Pete Kelly (alternate)
OTHER LEGISLATORS PRESENT
Representative Dan Ortiz
Representative Lora Reinbold
COMMITTEE CALENDAR
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES
EXECUTIVE SESSION
INTERIM REPORT: STATUS OF BOARD OF CERTIFIED DIRECT-ENTRY
MIDWIVES AUDIT RECOMMENDATIONS
OTHER COMMITTEE BUSINESS
PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION
No previous action to record
WITNESS REGISTER
KRISTIN CURTIS
Legislative Auditor
Division of Legislative Audit
Alaska State Legislature
Juneau, Alaska
POSITION STATEMENT: Provided information on the interim report
for the status of the audit.
ACTION NARRATIVE
7:37:01 AM
VICE CHAIR ANNA MACKINNON called the Legislative Budget and
Audit Committee meeting to order at 7:37 a.m. Senators
MacKinnon, Giessel, and Bishop and Representatives Kito,
Thompson, and Olson were present at the call to order.
Representative Pruitt and Senator Stedman arrived as the meeting
was in progress. Also in attendance were Representatives Ortiz
and Reinbold.
^Approval of the Minutes
Approval of the Minutes
7:38:17 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON announced that the first order of business
would be approval of the minutes.
REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON made a motion to approve the minutes of
the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee from March 18, 2016.
There being no objection, the minutes from the meeting of March
18, 2016, were approved.
^Executive Session
Executive Session
7:38:49 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON announced that the next order of business
would be to move into executive session.
REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON made a motion under Uniform Rule 22 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 7:39
a.m.
8:39:50 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON brought the committee back to order at 8:39
a.m. Representatives Kito, Pruitt, Olson, and Thompson and
Senators MacKinnon, Stedman, Bishop, and Giessel were present at
the call to order. Representative Reinbold was also in
attendance and Representative Ortiz had been present during a
portion of the Executive Session.
8:40:10 AM
REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON made a motion for the following final
audits for the Statewide Single Audit for the fiscal year ended
June 30, 2015, and the Commercial Passenger Vessel Tax Special
Audit to be released to the public for response. There being no
objection, it was so ordered.
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON stated that these audits would be posted on
the legislative website: legaudit.akleg.gov
^Interim Report: Status of Board of Certified Direct-Entry
Midwives Audit Recommendations
Interim Report: Status of Board of Certified Direct-Entry
Midwives Audit Recommendations
8:41:06 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON announced that the next order of business
would be an interim report for the status of the Board of
Certified Direct-Entry Midwives audit recommendations. She
reported that House Bill 26 had included a provision for the
Division of Legislative Audit to submit an interim report to the
Alaska State Legislature concerning the board's compliance with
audit recommendations and the status of the board's deficit.
8:41:39 AM
KRISTIN CURTIS, Legislative Auditor, Division of Legislative
Audit, Alaska State Legislature, reported that her division had
conducted a review to determine the current status of those four
prior audit recommendations. She shared that the Board of
Certified Direct-Entry Midwives had been given a two year
extension to their termination date and the Division of
Legislative Audit had been instructed to review those audit
recommendations. She reported that two of the four
recommendations had been resolved, one had been found to be in
progress, and the last was found to not yet be resolved. She
directed attention to page two of the memorandum [Included in
members' packets] which reviewed each of the recommendations.
She stated that the first recommendation, investigations that
impact public safety were not moving forward, was the most
significant as it was putting the public safety at risk, and had
led to the shortened termination date. She relayed that there
were four cases, involving two individuals, which had been moved
to the Department of Law in August, 2014. She shared that
staffing issues in that department had caused a delay until
August, 2015, when consent agreements were drafted for the two
individuals, which were signed by one individual, and dealt with
at the February, 2016 board meeting. The other individual did
not sign although the terms were being actively negotiated, and
she offered her belief that currently this was being actively
worked on. She reported that the deficit was still considered
open and not resolved, and, although the fees for direct entry
midwives and apprentices had been increased, the deficit had
continued to grow to $158,000 at the end of FY15. She shared
that this was still considered to be unresolved. She offered
the recommendation that the board should communicate certificate
requirements to continuing education providers to facilitate
compliance with licensing regulations. She reported that the
board had sent out notices and that this was resolved. She
stated that the board should approve apprentice permit
applications in accordance with statutes, and that this was also
now resolved with the board approving the permit applications.
She pointed out that the division was conducting a sunset
review, with the report and review of the board ready for
presentation to the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee in
the next few months, and this would contain a more detailed
review of the board.
8:44:04 AM
REPRESENTATIVE KITO asked if the open recommendation for the fee
increase was per annum.
MS. CURTIS replied that it was bi-annual.
8:44:25 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON asked how long the board extension was.
MS. CURTIS replied that it was for two years, and was now set to
expire in 2017.
^Other Committee Business
Other Committee Business
8:44:48 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON announced that the final order of business
would be a possible request for another interim report from the
Division of Legislative Audit for the Big Game Board extension,
which had been recommended for a shorter period of time, three
years. She suggested that it may be necessary for language to
shorten the extension, but not perform a huge audit and asked
the Auditor to work with her on this issue. She relayed that
there was also a deficit of almost $1 million in the licensing
fees.
8:45:51 AM
The committee took a brief at-ease.
8:46:16 AM
VICE CHAIR MACKINNON relayed that committee staff were deferring
the [scoping] work on the review of the support staff of Boards
and Commissions to post-session.
8:46:28 AM
ADJOURNMENT
There being no further business before the committee, the
Legislative Budget and Audit Committee meeting was adjourned at
8:46 a.m.
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