Legislative Budget & Audit Committee Hearing

ALASKA STATE LEGISLATURE LEGISLATIVE BUDGET AND AUDIT COMMITTEE April 25, 2019 7:00 a.m.

MEMBERS PRESENT

Representative Chris Tuck, Chair Representative Andy Josephson Representative Ivy Spohnholz Representative Mark Neuman Representative Jennifer Johnston (alternate)

Senator Click Bishop, Vice Chair Senator Bert Stedman Senator Natasha von Imhof Senator Cathy Giessel

MEMBERS ABSENT

Representative Neal Foster

Senator Lyman Hoffman Senator Peter Micciche (alternate)

OTHER LEGISLATORS PRESENT

Representative DeLena Johnson

COMMITTEE CALENDAR

APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES SPECIAL AUDIT REQUEST EXECUTIVE SESSION

PREVIOUS COMMITTEE ACTION

No previous action to record

WITNESS REGISTER

TOM WRIGHT, Staff Senator Mia Costello Alaska State Legislature Juneau, Alaska POSITION STATEMENT: Presented a special audit request on behalf of Senator Costello.

ACTION NARRATIVE

7:00:30 AM

CHAIR CHRIS TUCK called the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee meeting to order at 7:00 a.m. Representatives Tuck, Neuman, and Johnston (alternate) and Senators Bishop, Giessel, Stedman, and von Imhof were present at the call to order. Representatives Josephson and Spohnholz arrived as the meeting was in progress. Also present was Representative Johnson.

^Approval of the Minutes Approval of the Minutes

7:01:14 AM

CHAIR TUCK announced that the first order of business would be approval of the minutes.

7:01:18 AM

SENATOR BISHOP made a motion to approve the minutes of the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee of April 12, 2019. There being no objection, the minutes from the meeting of April 12, 19 were approved.

^Special Audit Request Special Audit Request

7:01:35 AM

CHAIR TUCK announced that the next order of business would be a request for a special audit of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

7:02:16 AM

TOM WRIGHT, Staff, Senator Mia Costello, Alaska State Legislature, explained that Senator Costello was requesting an audit of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board's licensing process. He noted that her office had received numerous complaints regarding long wait times in processing the license applications. He directed attention to the letter submitted to the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee [Included in members' packets], and explained that the audit should include: identification and examination of the time it takes the board to make application decisions; determination of the cause of application decision delays; recommendation for improving the timeliness of application decisions; and follow-up on areas of related concern identified by the Legislator Auditor.

CHAIR TUCK noted that this performance audit request could be done in conjunction with an upcoming Sunset Audit of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board.

7:03:36 AM

SENATOR BISHOP made a motion that the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee approve the request for an audit of the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board and directed that the Legislative Auditor address the audit request as part of Board's next sunset audit. There being no objection, the audit request was approved.

^Executive Session Executive Session

7:04:11 AM

CHAIR TUCK announced that the next order of business would be to move into Executive Session.

7:04:24 AM

SENATOR BISHOP made a motion to move to executive session under Uniform Rule 22 of the Alaska Legislature for the purposes of receiving legal guidance regarding the auditor's opinion on the FY 18 Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR). There being no objection, the committee went into executive session at 7:05 a.m.

7:05:22 AM

The committee took an at-ease from 7:05 a.m. to 7:58 a.m.

7:58:29 AM

CHAIR TUCK brought the committee back to order.

7:58:38 AM

ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business before the committee, the Legislative Budget and Audit Committee meeting was adjourned at 7:58 a.m.