When a state audit of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) turned up a number of deficiencies, GOHSEP Director Mark Cooper, judging from his response, must not have gotten the message from Gov. Bobby Jindal.
Among the shortcomings found by the audit were;
Inadequate preparation of the annual fiscal report—for the fourth consecutive year, no less;
Understating the amount reported for the Public Assistance Program by $120 million;
Inaccurate Federal Financial Reports, including a $25 million understatement of the federal authorized amount on the Public Assistance Report for Hurricane Katrina;
Untimely draws and inaccurate reporting of draws to Office of State Reporting and Accounting Policy resulting in delays in state reimbursements and potential lost interest revenue;
The audit report made numerous recommendations to remedy the shortcomings and Cooper responded in classic fashion:
“I have reviewed the finding(s) in (the audit report) which covers activities of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for Fiscal Year 2010,” Cooper wrote.
“Additional staff has been hired and additional training is planned to ensure that multiple layers of review are implemented,” he said.
Wait. What?
“Additional staff?”
What was it that Jindal said a few months back about doing more with less?
Perhaps that doesn’t apply to certain agencies.
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Huh?
The governor wants US to do more with less. Not his own office. His office is much more important than all other state agencies. At least to him.
Just as the legislative staff are more important than any other state employees – note the legislative budget currently pending includes NO cuts. Sure, they say they will cut, if necessary, later on, but so what?
Maybe GOHSEP will hire some of the state employees that Jindal is trying to get rid of in other state agencies. Yeah right! (written with lots of sarcasm since Jindal is NOT a friend of the state employee).
I think it’s obvious by now that the governor holds the legislative auditor in low esteem, if not downright disdain… if state workers and retirees don’t vote against him (and legislators who support his state worker hating agenda), I’ll be flabbergasted
Lsu agcenter is just as politcally corrupt as the jindal bell administration. I won’t have a job after June 30th. How many state employees are going to be able to collect unemployment? There are not enough businesses to absorb all the state workers being canned. Why don’t the high dollar professors at lsu take a big cut in pay, or better yet, fire them. They seem to think they can float on a cloud just like jindal bells. Some day the corruptness will stop, but there will be alot of no jindal bell votes in the future.
Legislative employees will not receive merit raises for the 2nd year in a row, the same as everyone else.