Legislative Audit Committee Hearing
The Legislative Audit Committee released a stinging performance audit showing Colorado has never come close to its 3% contracting goal for service-disabled veteran-owned businesses, greenlit a two-part audit of the Behavioral Health Administration, and heard emotional pleas to scrutinize the state's pet-facility regulator before punting that request to August.
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“One sdvosb said agency staff told them the goal isn't a requirement so they don't have to consider SDVOSB status. Another said that in their experience, Colorado is not veteran friendly and that the goal exists on paper, but is not felt in practice.”
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Sign in to subscribeIt. Good morning. The Legislative Audit Committee will come to order. Ms. Watson, please call the roll. Senators and Representatives Bacon. Excused. Basenecker. Here. Brooks. Excused. Johnson. Here. Linstadt. Present. Pelton. Here. Mr. Vice Chair. Morning, Madam Chair. Present. Madam Chair, you have a quorum. Thank you. First, I'd like to make sure that we welcome Representative Basenecker to our lovely committee this morning. Thank you for joining us. He is sitting in for. As a temporary replacement for Representative Welford this morning, may I have a motion? Committee to release the Department of Personnel and Administration state contracting goal for service disabled veteran owned small business performance audit dated May 2026. I move to release that report. Moved by the vice Chair. Second. Seconded by Representative Johnson. That motion carries and the report is released. Sorry, I have to turn my page here. Okay. Ms. Collin, good morning. Would you please introduce yourself and staff? Good morning, Madam Chair. Thank you. Michelle Collin, Deputy State Auditor. So this morning we'll be discussing our performance audit of the state's service disabled veteran owned small business contracting goal. We do have an acronym for that that the team will be using,…
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