Post by Logan on Apr 30, 2016 3:15:54 GMT -6
Gov. Jack Dalrymple has ordered the head of the North Dakota Department of Trust Lands on Thursday to fix areas highlighted in a recent performance audit that found accounting errors and noncompliance issues.
“Whether you disagree with it or not, I’ve looked through it and .… I think you need to take their recommendations and make those changes,” Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who chairs the five-member land board, said.
North Dakota Board of University and School Lands members met to discuss the performance audit with State Land Commissioner Lance Gaebe. The Forum News Service reported that 59 recommendations made by the state auditor’s office in three separate audits found bookkeeping errors, raised ethical concerns and identified shortcomings in how the agency handled the state’s oil impact grant and unclaimed property programs.
Gaebe said the auditors in their review found multiple mineral tracts were assigned to the wrong trust. Of those tracts, the errors were in assigning them to the Youth Correctional Center trust in Mandan rather than to the Ellendale trust. The issue was due to a clerical error from 1943, Gaebe said.
Read more: bismarcktribune.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/governor-orders-financial-fixes-after-land-board-s-audit/article_d175d825-9aa8-5cce-bd26-12368614b8d2.html
“Whether you disagree with it or not, I’ve looked through it and .… I think you need to take their recommendations and make those changes,” Gov. Jack Dalrymple, who chairs the five-member land board, said.
North Dakota Board of University and School Lands members met to discuss the performance audit with State Land Commissioner Lance Gaebe. The Forum News Service reported that 59 recommendations made by the state auditor’s office in three separate audits found bookkeeping errors, raised ethical concerns and identified shortcomings in how the agency handled the state’s oil impact grant and unclaimed property programs.
Gaebe said the auditors in their review found multiple mineral tracts were assigned to the wrong trust. Of those tracts, the errors were in assigning them to the Youth Correctional Center trust in Mandan rather than to the Ellendale trust. The issue was due to a clerical error from 1943, Gaebe said.
Read more: bismarcktribune.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/governor-orders-financial-fixes-after-land-board-s-audit/article_d175d825-9aa8-5cce-bd26-12368614b8d2.html