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Auditor aims to expedite response times, strengthen follow-ups
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Next-day audits are now on the state’s menu of services. Also available: extended audit experiences for respondents failing to implement corrective measures to curtail identified examples of egregious mismanagement. Missouri State Auditor Tom Schweich unveiled his new ASAP and AFTER initiatives Wednesday at a Capitol press conference. He said ASAP, or [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – State Auditor Susan Montee is critical of the way one of the state’s two employee pension boards made a decision to invest $15 million. In an audit report released Tuesday, Montee concluded that the board of trustees for the Missouri Department of Transportation and Highway Patrol Employees’ Retirement System by-passed its [...]
Continue reading …Audit Finds No Additional Education Revenue Gained From Relaxed Gaming Laws
September 23, 2010 No Comment
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – State lawmakers, lobbyists and State Auditor Susan Montee differ over whether extra money being brought in by voters’ repeal of loss limits on the state’s riverboat gaming operations is being used as intended. When state voters passed a 2008 ballot measure removing loss limits from riverboat gambling operations, they were told [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee on Friday issued an audit highlighting the precarious financial position of the Kansas City 33 School District. Excluding other financial sources, expenditures exceeded revenues in the years ending June 30 in 2008, 2009 and 2010, the audit said. And, it noted, prior to recent mitigating actions, [...]
Continue reading …Auditor Lauds Improved Sex Offender Tracking, Though Some Non-Compliance Issues Loom
August 19, 2010 No CommentJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee complimented the Highway Patrol and the Missouri Department of Public Safety for their efforts in improving the efficacy of the states’ sexual offender registration list. Montee issued an audit of the program as a follow up to a 2002 audit that found 36 percent of the [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A state audit finds that the legislature’s committee on oversight needs some overseeing. The report issued by State Auditor Susan Montee says the Committee on Legislative Research is not properly executing some of its prescribed mandates. Please visit www.monewshorizon.org to read the full article.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Tighter official controls and greater farmer response to information requests may have reduced by more than $11 million the record losses suffered during the implosion of two Missouri grain dealing operations, according a state audit released Thursday. Missouri farmers claimed losses of more than $32 million following the 2009 closures of [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Political interests trumped the established needs of Missouri’s higher learning institutions in an initiative to fund capital improvement projects, the state auditor said. “This (audit) is kind of a look-back,” State Auditor Susan Montee said Wednesday as she announced the findings. “How did we wind up with a bunch of projects [...]
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By REBECCA TOWNSEND Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A recent review of compliance with the state’s sunshine law during the past two years found problems with about a quarter of 250 governmental entities evaluated, according to a recent report from Missouri’s auditor. Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee reviewed every audit report her office [...]
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