HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

79

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2004

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING AN AUDIT OF THE PURCHASE-OF-SERVICE CONTRACTS awarded under THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY SERVICES.

 

 

WHEREAS, the Office of Community Services, established within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, is principally responsible for the coordination of programs for the needy, poor, and disadvantaged persons, refugees, and immigrants; and

WHEREAS, the Office of Community Services is statutorily empowered to contract for such services as may be necessary for the purposes of fulfilling its duties; and

WHEREAS, purchase-of-service contracts have been awarded under the Office of Community Services; and

WHEREAS, concerns have been raised that programs implemented by those purchase-of-service contracts are not fulfilling the expectations of the funding guidelines; and

WHEREAS, the Auditor has the duty to conduct postaudits of the transactions of all offices of the State in order to discover evidence of irregular or improper expenditure of state funds or other improper practice of financial administration; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-second Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2004, the Senate concurring, that the Auditor is respectfully requested to conduct an audit of all purchase-of-service contracts awarded under the Office of Community Services to determine whether the programs are fulfilling the expectations of the funding guidelines; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Auditor is requested to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislature not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2005; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Auditor, the Executive Director of the Office of Community Services, and the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Audit; Community Services