Committee asks chairs of boards tied to mental health workforce licensing to explain unaddressed audit recommendations

At a committee meeting, members of the Legislative Budget Assistant committee reviewed a 10-year status spreadsheet of performance audits and voted to ask the chairs of boards associated with the mental health workforce licensing audit to appear before the committee or provide a written response about outstanding audit observations.

The spreadsheet, presented by Christine Young, Director of Audits for the Legislative Budget Assistant office, showed about 30 reports from the last 10 years and highlighted items by color: red rows for audits with few or no updates and green for those agencies reporting full resolution. "You'll notice sometimes there's more than one agency connected to a report," Young said, explaining that one audit may require responses from multiple entities. Jay Henry, Performance Audit Supervisor, guided members through how the spreadsheet records the year released, number of observations, agencies' concurrence status and reported…