Senator Mathew Pitsch

Meeting — Jan. 22, 2020 (54:34)

of record and when I email my institution I don't know where that goes I've asked her to try and find it

Meeting — Jan. 22, 2020 (54:26)

all right? Well, with that, we're adjourned. Thank you. I put my phone number in there and it says email your institution because that's my number

Meeting — Jan. 22, 2020 (27:49)

it is available. Senator Pitch. Thank you Madam Chair. Just a quick round. I mean I'm kind of doing a poll of local. He found it just a minute ago but do all the rest of you have the rate button on your phone? I don't. I don't think we've marketed that very well and maybe that's

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (44:38)

that come and that comments to that because I do think that's probably the answer to not having this happen again I think that's a great point

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (44:08)

get them all written down sure but I feel fairly strongly that we've got other academic institutions that are on or headed towards the line of distress that should probably be looking at their outflow as one of my colleagues mentioned long before we get into the trains in the ditch and maybe this is the forum to say folks you don't want to sit in that chair as the past president of Henderson had to you need to go make those tough calls now if you're seeing

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (44:03)

actions you took at Henderson the cutting salary the cutting benefits that lower adjunct pay right I didn't

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (43:57)

stay on top of it follow-up yeah you're recognized help help me or help this group the

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (42:01)

distress at the higher ed level but we've got to figure out how to get to this earlier than oh my gosh look where we're at

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (41:29)

lot of these things we're dealing with now I had to have been already in play not under your watch but in play and I think that's something that you can counsel us on because on our committee i chair that with representative barry we focus more on how does this never ever ever happen again and i don't know what the answer is and i wouldn't put you on the block to answer do we have some of our other fine institutions in this same fiscal

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (40:54)

But oftentimes the horse is out of the barn at this phase, and that's the case with Henderson. So what I guess I'm asking for from you and from the UA system and all the others, how do we keep this from happening again? the key thing to get done here because we we heard presentations in my short tenure down here of a little over five years about how we had this thing fixed we need this grant from the state we gave that money to bail out and yet a

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (40:42)

you dr welch senator pitch you're recognized for a

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (40:44)

question thank you mr chairman And Dr. Welch, you and Dr. Babcock have both sat in our Education Audit Report meetings, and we thank you for that. And I thank you for taking this on.

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (10:42)

referred to the applicable prosecuting attorney the committee filed the one previously deferred audit report and 18 of the current audit parts that were brought before it mr chairman i move for adoption of this report thank you senator any questions on

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (10:09)

the district's audit report as well as the district's fiscal distress status the committee deferred acceptance of the district's audit report at its december 2019 meeting without review representatives from the earl and marvel school districts and the arkansas division of elementary and secondary education were present and answered questions from the committee related to findings some of which were repeat findings contained in each district's audit report as well as each district's fiscal distress status the audit report of the hermitage school district was

Legislative Joint Auditing — Jan. 24, 2020 (9:42)

thank you mr chairman the standing committee on educational institutions chairman's report the committee reviewed one previously deferred school district audit report in 18 current school district audit reports for the year into june 30 2019 representatives from the pine bluff school district and the arkansas division of elementary and secondary education were present and answered questions from the committee relating to findings some of which were repeat findings contained in

Children & Youth Committee - Senate & Aging, Children & Youth, & Legislative Affairs- House — Feb. 12, 2020 (12:18)

going to report this child abuse they're reporting I would hope every child abuse they encounter and the numbers to me if I've got 127,000 people in Sebastian County I would have more just relative child abuse than a county that's got 10,000, yet they're reporting 24, and I'm reporting 5 or 6. Does that number set right with you? No, it makes sense to me, sir. Yes, sir. Okay. Senator Cheatham.

Children & Youth Committee - Senate & Aging, Children & Youth, & Legislative Affairs- House — Feb. 12, 2020 (12:12)

this but this is a log of what's been reported surely our law enforcement aren't going I'm not

Children & Youth Committee - Senate & Aging, Children & Youth, & Legislative Affairs- House — Feb. 12, 2020 (12:06)

smaller areas. follow up yes well answer me this I guess and again I'm trying not to be confrontational on

Children & Youth Committee - Senate & Aging, Children & Youth, & Legislative Affairs- House — Feb. 12, 2020 (11:33)

like an explanation to that. Like I

Children & Youth Committee - Senate & Aging, Children & Youth, & Legislative Affairs- House — Feb. 12, 2020 (11:13)

but that's got to be a course of action somehow, unless these numbers are biased to reflect that. I mean, we've got large populations that aren't evidently having the crime, or at least not having it reported, and we have very small populations that are four and five hundred percent higher, and the numbers are driving me to that, and I guess I'd