“I again request the quarterly spending reports be produced by the Executive Branch as soon as possible,” Bradley said in a statement last week. “The governor owes it to New Hampshire taxpayers to comply with the law and ensure that the new spending on the drug crisis, which the legislature has approved, is consistent with the budget and the revenue targets we adopted last fall. Without this information, we simply don’t know the answer to that question and how our state stands financially.”
State law, in legislation sponsored by Bradley, requires a quarterly spending report. The first was due March 31, and is more than two months late, Bradley said.
The state’s overall spending reports have been posted on the state’s transparency website since 2010.
Gov. Maggie Hassan’s office, in a letter to Bradley, said those reports have never been able to identify the mix of funds available in balance forward from a prior year due to technical issues related to the state Department of Administrative Services’ software system.
“At the time the legislation was introduced, department representatives made clear that it was unknown how easy or difficult it would be to produce reports with this information from scratch with no additional resources,” according to the governor’s office response.
The Department of Administrative Services is working to address the technical issues.
“While everyone agrees it is a worthwhile endeavor, isolating the mix of funds available in the system from the prior year has been a time-consuming, manual process,” the governor’s office said.
DAS plans to issue a report for expenditures through the month of May by the end of June.
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– June, 13, 2006 -Senate Majority Leader Jeb Bradley, R-Wolfeboro, repeated his request for the governor’s office to release quarterly spending reports for state departments. Technical issues have resulted in delays.
