Executive Committee of the Legislative Council

Mr. Syed, please call the roll Representatives. And Sanders, Caldwell. Here. Duran. Here. Rodriguez. Here. Simpson. President. Mr. President, Speaker. Here. Good morning. We do have a quorum. Good morning, everyone. Very full agenda today. We will start with review of our Legislative Audit Committee committee recommendations for our auditor. Then we have votes on all of our agency budget requests. The four of those, we'll be talking about two pieces of legislation and then a review of the Legislative Department budget request. No vote required on that today. So to kick us off, what a delight to have Senator Frizzell here with us to talk about the Legislative Audit Committee's recommendations. Thank you. Thank you and good morning to the committee. I am here in my capacity of chair as chair of the Legislative Audit Committee. And just as a background functions of the Legislative Audit Committee are to review and release audit reports, to recommend special studies. And why I'm here today is every five years, the Legislative Audit Committee recommends an appointment for the position of State Auditor to the General Assembly. And so there's a process. As with everything we do, there's a process around this.…