Senator Kim Hammer

Joint Budget Committee — March 20, 2025 (36:38)

appropriating it's still going to be a competitive bid process that's going to have to come back before us for approval am I correct on that that'd be correct thank that correct senator dismayne okay thank you all right

Joint Budget Committee — March 20, 2025 (36:06)

on those projects or do you have any knowledge of

Joint Budget Committee — March 20, 2025 (36:20)

okay and then question to the chair just for clarification of something please approval of the appropriation there would still have to be a competitive bid process by any contractors that want on this and so as far as the cost above the 750 while they may know what we are

Joint Budget Committee — March 20, 2025 (35:53)

uh dismayne close you got the last question thank you mr chairman in the discussion that senator bryant had about the previous contractor and uh 85 percent success rate do you know if that contractor came in under budget

Joint Budget Committee — March 20, 2025 (4:00)

report. You are recognized, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. The peer review subcommittee met yesterday, March 19th. The subcommittee received reports, reviewed requests, and approved the following. Various temporary appropriations, American Rescue Plan Act appropriation, and a restricted reserve fund transfer, and I move for the adoption of the report.

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (1:01:02)

the first cycle of auditing after the new employee took place or did it take the second cycling of audit before we caught it yes sir it was the first cycle okay so you caught it as soon as you possibly could have as far as auditors looking at the books is that correct yes

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (52:15)

degree you inherited the part that's associated with the IRS, you inherited when you became mayor then? I will say up until 2017. From 17

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (51:33)

living in the state, yes, sir. Okay, and who was overseeing the IRS amounts from 2012 to 2017? Did you have outside help on

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (50:26)

think might should have picked up on this but with regards to the IRS how's your cooperation with the IRS going because you got a pretty good

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (49:52)

difficult spot I know so really appreciate you being here you don't have any of your city council members with you today though do you we do not do you have a budget committee that's part of your city council committee um that's something we've

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (50:20)

well i appreciate you being here and taking it on the chin but you know at the same time there's others I

Legislative Joint Auditing — Oct. 11, 2019 (49:49)

staff there appreciate y'all being here in a

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (31:57)

they helped steer this project in the right way and again what the IABM project is replacing those legacy systems and the name change was due to an acquisition. all right thank you thank you mr. chair thank you thank you all

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (31:24)

be let all right and again i kind of mr chair may i have one more one more follow up thanks so i'm sitting up here trying to remember because when we had the ef thing several years ago i can't remember if cognosanti was one of the good players or one of the difficult players in that whole scenario and they changed their name to NTT Data State Health Consulting, you know what the purpose of changing the name was and was there any weighted value to the history of that company's involvement with this project way back when? So yes

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (31:55)

sir, they were one of the good players so

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (30:50)

what services is it what areas are we

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (30:53)

growing um yes sir so it is for um ivnv which is independent verification services so we we are actually about to let a new contract for those services that had been previously being performed by cognizante and this was at a request from the fed so cms asked us to increase this staffing they were worried about our eligibility project and just wanted to make sure we had a we we've got a certain number of individuals there and so this was a request directly from cms to uh to address that gap until that new procurement can

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (30:14)

you bet good afternoon my name is kevin grace i'm the

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (30:23)

sir thank you i'm sorry i don't know this but ceo cognizante or formally or or with who i'm sorry with dhs all right sorry sorry so i know i probably ought to know the answer to this question but i'll answer it anyway i noticed on the history amendment number four that part of the justification for the increase is projecting staffing and resources and additional resources do to continued growth resulting in the need for new and expanded services specifically

ALC - Review — Oct. 15, 2019 (29:33)

And then I want to back up to number nine. Is that going