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Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
0:00
Good afternoon, members. We're going to get this started today. Welcome to House and Senate Legislative Audit. We're going to start with Representative Painter is going to lead us in prayer. If you all would stand and join us. Please pray with me.
Representative Stetson Painter
Unverified
0:13
Dear Lord, thank you so much for letting us gather here today. Lord, just help us remind us that we represent you and your kingdom, Lord, and let us do the people's will today. And we just ask that you forgive us where we fall short of you. In your son's name, Jesus. Amen. Thank you.
Speaker 8
0:30
All right. Okay. I think I knocked my microphone off,
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
0:37
too. All right. We are going to need to adopt the minutes from our December 11th meeting. Do I have a motion? Got a motion. A second? All in favor? Aye. All right. Minutes. I guess the moment has passed. What's our next review report? All right. I'm going to turn it over to staff. Thank
Speaker 10
0:55
you. Thank you, Madam Chair, and good afternoon. Today, there are four higher education audit reports for the committee's review.
Speaker 12
1:02
We did not have any deferred reports from the previous meeting. We will begin with the University of Arkansas System report, which contained three findings and was certified to the Governmental Bonding Board and referred to the applicable prosecuting attorney and attorney general. All three findings were the result of the University of Arkansas System's Internal Audit Division that were required to be reported to the PA and the AG. Instead of reading each
finding, which is detailed in your packet there, I will provide a brief summary of the issues noted. Finding one was related to unauthorized purchases made in the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Facility Management Department. After being notified of unauthorized purchases by the University's management, the system's internal audit division conducted a review of vendor purchases and reported a total loss of $37,000 due to unauthorized purchases made to a vendor.
The individual responsible for these unauthorized purchases was terminated from employment. Finding two was related to a fraud scheme regarding students' free application for federal student aid and falsified transcripts at the University of Arkansas, East Arkansas Community College. Management of the college notified the system's internal audit division of the fraud, and upon review, internal audit reported a total loss of $66,000. Finding three was related to unallowable charges made to the Veterans Upward Bound Program
at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville. University management notified internal audit of the potential misappropriation, and upon review, $8,500 in unallowable transactions were noted. The university was able to recover $6,700, leaving an outstanding balance of $1,800 as of the audit report date. This concludes the findings for the University of Arkansas system. Management has provided the response to each finding. Although system officials were not required to be present,
they are here to answer any questions the committee may have. All right,
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
3:20
members, I don't know if you all have
any questions. I know I have a few, so if you all wouldn't mind joining us at the table and identifying yourselves.
Speaker 19
3:46
Thank you. I'm Laura Cheek. I'm the Chief Audit Executive for the University of Arkansas System. I'm Laura Cheek. I'm the Chief Audit Executive for the
Speaker 23
4:03
University of Arkansas System. Ben Beaumont, Director of Policy for the
Speaker 25
4:07
University of Arkansas System. Good afternoon. Kathy Klein, Chancellor, University of Arkansas, East Arkansas Community College. Rebecca
Speaker 28
4:13
Haley, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville Government Relations.
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
4:16
Thank you. And I don't see any members with questions yet. So I guess I'll go ahead and start off with mine. So my question, first of all, I want to commend you guys, because I guess these were caught by your internal audit division. And so I do think that's great that you guys saw
these things and addressed them to begin with. Is there anything, I guess, before I start my questions
Speaker 19
4:38
or anything you guys would like to say to start off? So just some of the issues identified were identified by management prior to us being notified.
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
4:47
Anybody else? Okay. Well, thank you. So my question, I guess, starts with, I guess I'll start with the one at the East Arkansas Community College. And so initially, these were not students or they were not legitimate students at all. They were completely fraudulent, or were they students? Were you able to track anybody down? Do you have any ideas as far as the status on that? They
Speaker 33
5:12
would be, this is basically identity theft is what I would say that it is.
Speaker 34
5:18
And so they would steal transcripts from others, and we were able to, I want to commend our staff. This was a new type of crime that emerged in fall of 24, and they were like dogs with a bone when they started seeing irregularities and dug out 39 students that had submitted falsified transcripts. And all the seven of those were, you know, unenrolled from the college, as it were, or it could have been worse. And once we found that there was this potential for fraud,
because I really wasn't sure all the ins and outs of that, we engaged with the UA audit team to assist us in are suspicions correct? What do we need to do? Here's the actions that we've taken. to pull on the threads, to investigate, to discover that these people had submitted documents as a basis for admission that were
Speaker 35
6:10
not correct. But we don't have, at this point, any way to know who the actual person is that did it because it would be a form of identity theft.
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
6:21
So were they, the identities that were stolen, were they students that were in that system already or were they just, do you have any idea? There's no way of
Speaker 35
6:34
knowing. I mean, we have four and a half pages of red flags that we follow through now with the student validity team that we have created. So it's a nationwide problem, just like credit card theft
Speaker 34
6:53
or any other type of identity fraud theft. We do a lot of efforts, a lot of outreach, a lot of use of public records. to just keep trying to figure out, is a person who they say they are? And then, again, we had to use our common sense and our experience and get together and compile a giant list of red flags and then get the assistance of the audit team for additional help and scrutiny and tightening up our policies.
Luckily, we did have policies in place that prevented admissions based on fraudulent records. And I have spoken with prosecutor Todd Murray about this, you know, briefly, and now it's in their hands, and certainly I'd be thrilled if they caught the bad actors. Right. So
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
7:40
was there something in particular that you all were looking for? Had you been trained on looking for this, or was this just people who just caught things,
Speaker 34
7:53
who are passionate about students and are, I will be honest with you,
absolutely personally and professionally appalled that there are people who would take financial aid away from those who need it um noticed some things that were irregular and just kept following like a dog with a bone and the more we
Speaker 35
8:12
pulled um we just dug deeper until we knew we really needed some assistance to determine you know um to go
Speaker 34
8:20
move forward someone else someone else besides us needed to be brought in at some point. We could go so far with just kicking them out.
And I will reiterate, the federal FAFSA system awarded them all aid. We stopped them by saying, no, we're kicking you out from admittance to the college based on falsified records. So do you have something implemented now that you all are going
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
8:42
to use to help identify that? And I assume it's sharing across the systems, but do you know if that is, as far as just the other universities across our state and across our country? Is that something that people are also working on? And I think the staff might be able to speak a little bit. I'm just kind of curious, how do we make sure this doesn't happen not only to you all, but across our state?
Speaker 25
9:05
Well, I won't make you fall asleep by reading
Speaker 35
9:07
you four and a half pages of red flags, but they go to great, great lengths.
Speaker 34
9:14
There's a student validity team. It's cross-departmental. There is training constantly with everyone that touches a student's admission record or financial aid record um we have to use a lot of um file the common sense of everyone plus some some things we thought of plus some suggestions from auditors plus things we researched there are a lot of tools out there it does take a lot of man hours though because things like um you text and they
don't text back things like you ask them once you start seeing red flags something that doesn't match up
Speaker 35
9:46
I've got a high school transcript from Corning and now I live in Brooklyn and I'm trying I'm asserting I'm trying to go to school in Forest City it's not that a student can't do that so that we have to be cautious and try to keep help good students who need help
Speaker 34
10:05
students can do that but for our area that's unusual so that would be something well let's go further let's set up
a personal meeting or a Zoom or Teams meeting. Let's have them show their ID, make sure that the pictures match. Let's look up their address. Where is that? Oh, is it a vacant lot or a burnout or a business? We just keep following all the means that we can follow until we can. We
Speaker 35
10:30
reach out to high schools very often, and sometimes there's something hinky there once we talk to the high school. They go, Arkansas is small, So
Speaker 34
10:40
if you reach out to a small high school, they may even go, you know, oh, no, I know him.
Speaker 35
10:47
He lives next door to me. He's not going to school in Forest City. So it's just good people, very dedicated, who feel a personal passion. And, yes, thankfully, being in the UA system, we've been assisted in summarizing our long list of red flags and protocols we use and then sharing them throughout. And it's a nationwide problem that really emerged and escalated, I think, in the fall of 24. And, you know, we're all
Speaker 19
11:17
All right. Thank you. Did you have something you wanted to add? No. Kathy mentioned it. We have shared this with all the other campuses within our system, what Kathy's team has done, and have, you know, provided fraud alerts to our campuses so that everyone's aware and is cognizant that they need to be. ready to identify this. Okay. Representative Mayberry, are you recognized?
Speaker 52
11:53
There we go. Okay. So you actually referenced fall of 24. In my
Representative Julie Mayberry
Unverified
11:58
mind, before you even said that, was going there because that's when federally FAFSA went through major changes and there was huge backlogs I was trying to get my own children registered for FAFSA and we had to wait a few months and then it was just it was a mess I'm sure you all know more than I know about how much it was a mess so but that system was done to make it less complicated to apply for FAFSA so you could get through it
quicker I don't know if it makes it easier or not but is some of that the cause of what you're seeing now I mean you made reference to this kind of starting in fall of 24 and I just wonder if there's something federally that that has made it easier for that identity to be um first of all I'm so glad that you thank
Speaker 35
12:49
you for those words and I'm so glad that you've had the pain of the FAFSA too. Many times. Even in my own
Speaker 55
12:55
home we had me arguing with my husband while
Speaker 34
13:00
we tried to figure out our FAFSA for our child and you got the simplified one so. I've had both both ends and I
Representative Julie Mayberry
Unverified
13:08
still don't think it was simplified is really simplified but but anyway.
Speaker 33
13:12
Anyway you may have hit on something that it certainly our student
Speaker 34
13:20
teams that handle financial aid and admissions were certainly already overwhelmed with changes or working hard to accommodate that as was everyone so i i can't say
Speaker 35
13:30
for certain my personal belief is that this type of crime
identity theft types of crime of fraud are just bad actors are finding
Speaker 34
13:40
new ways to do that every day that we're sitting there we're sitting here with the cyber information that's out
Speaker 35
13:48
there now and for whatever reason, that's when it began to really escalate and start to be, subsequent to that, be seen in publications and stuff. And I will say since that time, no students have gotten past our very
Speaker 34
14:06
thorough protocols that we follow, and so we're very proud of that.
It's time-consuming. It takes a brain. It takes people working together. It takes shared information, but it's worth it 100%. Just wondering if there
Representative Julie Mayberry
Unverified
14:18
was something on a national level that really needed to be done to make sure, because, I mean, if they've simplified it, maybe they're skipping a really important step to verify something that needs to be.
Speaker 35
14:29
I would be thrilled if they would catch them before we had to catch them, because we're almost in an investigative body now, and that's certainly not something that we wanted to be.
And we can only go so far. Are there private records here? We have to protect that. We have to protect good students. And we have to go into it with the mindset of the student validity team is to validate the valid students. We have to go into it with a good mindset as well. You can't go into it with a
Representative Julie Mayberry
Unverified
14:58
different type of mindset. Is there any concern that as someone is filling out those forms, which I have actually just had this conversation with my daughter saying, oh, we need to do yours before we get too late now, before she heads back to school next week.
But any concern that actually filling out the forms now could potentially open us up to more identity theft for whatever reason? That is such at the
Speaker 35
15:24
federal level. I would be hesitant to state an opinion since I've not worked in Dallas at the FAFSA office before. I can read journals, read publications, but for us, we have to use our local
Representative Julie Mayberry
Unverified
15:40
Arkansas smarts is all I can say.
I mean, we hope it's safe. I mean, we have to do it, and we hope our identity is
Speaker 35
15:49
being safe, but what safeguards are there? And we have to be safe with the student information when we're trying to validate their identity, so we have to be very careful with that. But so it is a, at times it can be a bit of a tight rope, I would guess, for them, because you're wanting, but again, that's why we want to approach it with the correct mindset when we're doing this. Thank you. Representative Painter, did you have a question?
Representative Stetson Painter
Unverified
16:17
Yes, Madam Chair. I first want to say thank you for you guys catching these mistakes. Ms. Haley, I know we talked before we came in, but I just wanted on the record, I wanted to talk about the Veterans Upward Bound Program. I know there were some issues there, but I just want to make sure on the record that no veterans were kicked out, suffered, or anything else. They were able to move somewhere else. So can you kind of explain that so we have that
Speaker 65
16:42
on the record? Absolutely. Thank you, sir. Yes, so we decided to close the program through the audit with Ms. Cheek.
It is a federally funded program. So coming back from COVID, the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville went test optional. So a lot of these students are not enrolled in any institution yet when they come through this program. So a lot of what we were doing at Fayetteville was preparing them for the ACT and all of that. We have two other veteran upper bound programs in the state at Arkansas Tech and Pulaski Tech that are fantastic. So what we did is making sure these students, if they reach out to us,
we push them to those programs to help those students. And then we have a huge Veterans Center on our campus that supports the veterans that are enrolled or if they reach out to get enrolled to help.
Senator Tyler Dees
Unverified
17:36
Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Senator Deese? Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you again for being here. Just a few questions back to EACC. So 39 students. How many total students are on in that campus, on that
program? How many total students are in that program or on that campus?
Speaker 25
17:52
Well, fall enrollment for the traditional fall semester was right over
Speaker 34
17:57
1,500. That was our first time to crack 1,500, so it was actually
Senator Tyler Dees
Unverified
18:02
a big celebration. Wonderful. Okay, so these 39 students, it's self-reported. You guys caught it yourself. And structurally, the steps when you find an instance or a suspicion of fraud, is this where you communicate to Ms. Cheek's team with AID? Is that how I follow that?
Speaker 19
18:23
Yes. If there's a suspicion of fraud or a loss that's identified, they communicate to us as well as to legislative audit as well. But as far as self-reporting, they also report it to the Department of
Senator Tyler Dees
Unverified
18:36
Education. Okay. I think that's what I want to understand a little bit more, Ms. Cheek. So it's in unison with you and your team and LEG Audit at the same time when a suspicion of fraud happens? Yes, that's correct. Okay. And then kind of understanding that further, if this wasn't found or seen at the same timeline,
timeline, when would Leg Audit have access to this or potentially when would they find it if it wasn't self-reported? How would I understand the timeline of maybe when, it's hard to know maybe when, and this may be a question for staff, but when would you guess that Leg Audit would have found it if you
Speaker 19
19:24
didn't report it? Well, we have, our campuses are very good about reporting, and so usually if there is something identified that, you know, in accordance with the law,
they have to report within five business days. And so we are meeting that requirement pretty regularly. If Kathy's team hadn't identified this and reached out to us, then I guess LEGO Audit may have identified it later. Maybe in an annual reporting structure timeline. In an annual review when they do their annual reviews. So that's kind of your, I
Senator Tyler Dees
Unverified
19:57
guess, another safety net is that there's always a next reporting cycle or structure.
And then I had one more on that. Oh, and does your team make recommendations to prosecutors or is that only through leg
Speaker 19
20:13
audit? It's a combination of both. We, if it depends sometimes on the case, we may involve the prosecutor early. And also, if the campus law enforcement is involved early, they also may reach out to the prosecutors. So sometimes it is already to the prosecutor before it gets to a legislative audit.
Senator Tyler Dees
Unverified
20:37
Do any of these 39 students have any commonalities? They're the same major? They're family-related? They're from the same area?
Speaker 24
20:46
No. I mean, there could be groups of commonalities. a thing to look for is like three or four
Speaker 34
20:52
students sharing the same address with no obvious relationship or three or four students sharing the
Speaker 35
20:57
same bank account number with no obvious relationship. Again, that in and of itself is not fraudulent. There's nothing wrong with that. These are red flags to start checking against all the giant list of red flags that we now have
Speaker 34
21:12
and seeing and confirming and going step further, step further, step further. What about
Senator Tyler Dees
Unverified
21:17
visa and U.S. citizenship? They were all U.S. citizens as far as the
Speaker 34
21:22
FAFSA. Again, I can't, I don't, we don't have a way
Speaker 35
21:28
of knowing who they really, who the person that committed the fraud really was. But the FAFSA, federal government system, maybe you can help me explain that better,
has already validated them and had awarded them all federal financial aid, so they were U.S. citizens 100% as far as I know. We don't have a big visa student population where we live. Thank you. I appreciate it. Representative Beatty, you're recognized. Thank
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
Unverified
22:03
you, Madam Chair. Just a question for staff. um in the past has this been anything that leg audit has noticed or has it been a finding in the in the past and is this something that's included in
Speaker 12
22:17
your scope of review it it's not something that we've noticed um in the past as dr klein mentioned it's something that's um really taken off in the last couple of years um as far as it being in the scope of our review, that's hard to say, um, cause we're not testing 100%. So it would be difficult, I think, for an auditor to come in and find it when they have experts at the institution
that do this and management ultimately is responsible for any fraud that could occur. Just, uh, I
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
Unverified
22:56
guess a follow-up also, this, this isn't, did not result in any loss, financial loss to the state of Arkansas,
Speaker 32
23:09
correct? So there were two things. There was $2,500 that we had to pay
Speaker 35
23:14
back because it was some students got through and got federal financial aid.
Those were the seven, I'm noting, that we didn't get out before they got financial aid distributed. Now there's unrealized income. You know, had the students stayed in, and they would owe us or do still owe us tuition and fees because we didn't kick them out until after classes had started. So you kind of have to understand the cycle of college billing there a little bit. But certainly if the prosecutors find any of these people, or the state police or whomever, then they can recoup some of that.
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
Unverified
23:50
But that would be the loss. Well, it is a Thursday, and I may be being a little bit slow. So these were actually students that attended class
Speaker 35
24:03
at the campus? No, no, no. This is all online. All online. And so they would log in just enough to still be an active student. It took us a while to come to understanding, you know, first you start thinking AI always in this day and time. Now, these are humans, and they're committing fraud, and they log in.
I'm sure they do this at, what, five, ten schools? who lord only knows um and log in just enough just remain enrolled um and again we caught all but seven and kicked them out before they could get financial
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
Unverified
24:38
aid okay because i was looking at there were 39 but you're saying out of the seven
Speaker 35
24:44
right right we could we we out of the 39 we caught all but seven before the federal government could disperse their financial aid to them but seven were doing just enough and had a sophisticated enough package that they were
harder to uncover especially in this initial as you mentioned it was a new FAFSA year in this initial you know wait a minute something is pinky here let's start seeing what's going on let's bring an audit to confirm are we seeing what we think we're seeing because you know that was it's quite elaborate what
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
Unverified
25:20
they go through. Well, I'm just trying to get back to that the university had to reimburse $2,500 worth of tuition for something that FAFSA approved, and you went through your normal steps.
Is it a mandate that the university where that financial aid is received goes back and verifies all the information that was submitted to FAFSA was correct
Speaker 35
25:44
information? um people in independently submit their information i understand that so i um if now we did immediately reach out to the office of financial aid and said you know these people gained admissions that's that was our that's our um that's the piece for us that was that was
falsified or fraudulent they gained admissions using a transcript that was not theirs or was falsified in some way right um and so we were able to kick them out you know what the federal government and fafsa you know they tie in with income tax returns and honestly the mechanics of how it works at that upper level are a little bit beyond me but um to me i guess i'm most annoyed about the 2500 that was the seven students that slipped by and certainly unrealized income you
You want, as a chancellor, you want all the income you can get. And per, you know, per Arkansas law, if they found them, they could, if they had assets, they could get that at some point. But I would say I'm most annoyed about
Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
Unverified
26:54
the $2,500. And final line of question, any appeal process to that, that $2,500 reimbursement, did they give any of the options other than just reimburse it to the system?
Speaker 35
27:05
Well, no, I don't, the federal government wouldn't view this as their problem.
Okay. This was, I don't, and that may be a bit of a broad statement, but our relationship is not that they would ever reimburse us if a student fraudulently got financial aid in any way. I'm sure, you know, back in the days of all paper, you know, nationwide, There were people who wrote fake checks to themselves and carried it to a bank, you know, a fake physical check. And probably some of them got far enough along to get some money out of a bank with those.
But the federal government would not have reimbursed a college for that any more than they would reimburse us in this digital
Chair
Unverified
27:53
age. Okay. Thank you. Members, are there any other questions?
Representative Wayne Long
Unverified
27:57
Representative Long, you're recognized. Thank you, Madam Chairman. I was wondering, since you mentioned that all these were online students, do you all have a way to check the IP addresses of these people to make sure that it's kind of matching up with where they say they are at?
Speaker 35
28:14
That is one of the things to check on our list of protocols. However, many students today use a VPN, which means their IP address changes often. And that has to be specifically, you would have to, just like a physical address, right? You live at number one Main Street Corning. Well,
Speaker 34
28:34
there's nothing wrong with you living in number one Main Street Corning. But if we put it in Zillow, we took the time to stop, put it in Zillow,
and found out that was an empty lot, then we know we need
Speaker 35
28:49
to keep digging. So an IP address would have to be looked up. But that is one of
Speaker 34
28:55
the protocols that we have that we, one of the many things we can pursue,
Representative Wayne Long
Unverified
29:00
yes. Well, of course, you could maybe require them to turn their VPN off so you could verify that, you know, they live pretty close to where they say they live. I just thought that might be something you might look into. We
Speaker 35
29:12
can do those, yes, all of those things.
But they're sophisticated. I'm not going to sugarcoat that in any way.
Speaker 34
29:21
They're smart enough to probably get a job in cybersecurity instead of trying to defraud people. They're sophisticated criminals. But that is one of the things that
Speaker 35
29:31
we do check or can check. We can get them on a Teams meeting and then look that up later. We can look and see that sometimes that several applications came in at the same time, say 1.30 in the morning, from the same IP address.
Well, that's, I don't want to give away all our red flags right now. I understand. But, and I'm sure the rest of my fellow colleges don't necessarily want me doing that. So that's something where
Speaker 34
29:59
you go, huh, hmm, this is unusual. Now, again, there's nothing wrong with that. A group of students could live together and could all decide to do their applications together at 1.30 in the morning from the same iPad or computer or whatever they use. For us, it's a red flag because that would be unusual. Thank you, ma'am.
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
30:21
Any other questions? Staff, I do have one question. Is there a
way that can be, universities and colleges can be notified through you all or made aware of this issue that is occurring?
I mean, some of them may already have it out on their red flags, I guess, but that the success, I guess, they had in finding and identifying them so that they can maybe even reach out to them as far as what did you do
to help empower us to try and find some
Speaker 12
30:55
of this ourselves? I don't want to speak for them. I know Laura and I discussed this issue when we had meetings at the entrance conference, but I think they are aware of the issue because it is a national issue. I would think that at some of the higher ed trainings it's discussed as well, and I'm getting nodded yes, so I do think they're
Speaker 19
31:19
aware. We did discuss it with all the campuses in the system,
and I know our chancellors are part of other organizations where it has also been discussed, and it is a national issue. There is, you know, in California and in Minnesota and Michigan, there's been lots of money that has been lost because of these fraudulent
Speaker 34
31:41
students. And we definitely shared with our colleagues in Arkansas, but some of the red flags might be different for different colleges. For example, you
Speaker 35
31:51
know, we used our smarts and expertise,
and then we used the expertise that we were thankfully able to call upon at the UA and our fellow chancellors and just continue to develop red flags and protocols. But I think all campuses are tackling this in the
Speaker 34
32:06
way that works best for their type of campus. Well, I just want to say I think I
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
32:13
speak for all the members. We appreciate your work on this, and we do realize it's almost a moving target in what's happening in technology and in that fraudulent era. And so we just appreciate what you all did in catching that
and can commend the people that are working for you, your staff, that you referenced as the Arkansas smarts in doing that. And so, we're proud of them. Thank you. Ms. Thank you. Ms. Members, without objection, we will file this report. Thank you.
All right, members, without objection, we would like to go ahead and defer the
report for Northwest Arkansas Community College. All right,
Speaker 12
33:27
thank you. Mr. Fink, moving on. All right, the next reports after Northwest Arkansas Community College contained findings that were not referred to a prosecuting attorney, and they did not contain
repeat findings, and those were Southeast Arkansas College and Southern Arkansas University Tech. They had findings related to misstatements in their financial statements. College personnel at both institutions corrected the financial statements during audit fieldwork. Additionally, Recently, SAU Tech had a finding related to unauthorized withdrawals. The college discovered these unauthorized withdrawals and they were able to recover the funds. This concludes the reports for review on the committee's agenda.
Speaker 95
34:12
Staff would recommend that these reports be filed as reviewed and I can
Representative Hope Duke
Unverified
34:19
answer any questions that you may have. Members, are there any questions about any of these findings? All right, seeing none, without objection, we will file these
reports. All right, members, thank you for your hard work today and all the questions, and I guess we'll see you tomorrow morning. Meeting is adjourned.
Agenda
A. Call to order by Co-Chairman.
B. Adoption of Minutes of the December 11, 2025 meeting.
C. Review of Reports. Refer to the Synopsis
D. New Business.
E. Adjournment.
Documents
| Title | Type | Pages | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agenda — LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING - EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS, Jan 8, 2026 | Agenda | 2 | Official source ↗ |
Speakers
Representative Hope Duke
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Representative Stetson Painter
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Representative Julie Mayberry
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Senator Tyler Dees
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Representative Howard M. Beaty, Jr.
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Chair
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Representative Wayne Long
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