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Internal audit director reports completed and in‑progress audits, cancels two planned audits
Summary
TPWD’s internal audit director briefed the commission on completed audits (local park grants, fisheries measures, IT help‑desk), canceled planned audits and ongoing follow‑up work, and described progress on advisory and external assessments.
Brandy Meeks, TPWD internal audit director, briefed the commission on May 21 about the status of the department’s FY25 audit plan and recent external assessments.
Meeks reported completion of audits of local park grants and key performance measures for inland and coastal fisheries, and completion of an IT help-desk audit. She said planning has begun for a friends‑group oversight audit and that fieldwork is in progress for a post-payment P‑card follow-up review. Meeks said she requested and received chairman and vice‑chair approval to cancel an IT governance audit and an Active Directory co‑source engagement after staffing and IT migration considerations changed the risk profile.
Meeks said the audit team completed an internal quality-assurance review for the Department of Information Resources peer-review process and noted external work including the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation expenditure verification program and completion of a FEMA desk review of a port-security grant program.
Commissioners asked about cybersecurity monitoring. IT Director Jamie McClanahan responded that the cybersecurity team and Department of Information Resources (DIR) tooling provide dashboards of login attempts and other monitoring functions; McClanahan said the agency blocks many suspicious login attempts and that roughly 95 percent of agency data is in cloud hosting.
Meeks’s update was informational; commissioners asked follow-up questions about canceled audits and the rationale for reallocating internal-audit resources.
