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Legislators critique TYC restructuring plan, demand new spending audit

State Senator John Whitmire and Rep. Jerry Madden want the state auditor to take another crack at analyzing the agency's problems, the Austin Statesman reports ("Audit demanded, Nedelkoff off," Aug. 7):A day after blasting the Texas Youth Commission for continued financial mismanagement, two key legislative leaders this afternoon requested a full state audit of all spending by the still-troubled agency. ?The Texas Youth Commission is continuing a pattern of, what appears to us, a willful disregard for the spending parameters set by the Legislature,? Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, and Rep. Jerry Madden, R-Richardson, said in the letter to Auditor John Keel. ?TYC was placed into Conservatorship due to gross fiscal mismanagement. We want to ensure that gross fiscal mismanagement is not continuing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).