I wonder if you should try to use the FIO act to get ahold of the first audit that they claimed was incomplete. Given the nature of information given in the complete audit, I think there is reason to suspect that information could have been deleted or altered from the audit they deemed unsatisfactory. There should be no reason to not release it now, since any incomplete or inaccurate information should be correct in the final version. If I were to file a request, I would ask for any instructions given on the first audit, any email or tranmissions between them company and the department, the incomplete version, and then any emails or transmissions given to the company that finished the final version. I bet they try to refuse to give it up, but I think there is is sufficeint grounds to be suspect of what transpired, and if nothing else, the waste of money by the department in paying off the first company.
COF minds thinking alike . . . . This went out this morning. I would suggest to ALL PP'ers to plagerize and aggrevate your own elected critters:
From: JohnQ
Date: Mon, Jan 25, 2010 1:24 pm
To: Kessler.Lynn@leg.wa.gov
Cc: COF's
From Subject (UnThread Messages) Date Size
Rep. Kessler,
Apparently you "Corrected Some Bad/Inappropriate SAO Behavior" because the first thing this morning I received my very first notification from the system, "Opportunities for Washington", reissued 2010. Remember, I signed up for those "Alerts" at the beginning of our "Embarrassing Odyssey." Please keep up the good work keeping the SAO Bureaucrats at least a bit honest about whom they serve.
Since you know just how I (and others) feel about the validity of the Crab Performance Audit results, I would like to enlist your help with my efforts to file a Freedom of Information requests for the work products of the Performance Audits, and the initial MGT America Contract. What do I have to do, i.e., fill out forms, and send them to whom.
JohnQ -- Freshwater Bay
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: FW: Performance Audit of Puget Sound Dungeness Crab
Recreational Fishing Program
From: JohnQ
Date: Fri, January 22, 2010 5:37 pm
To: "Kessler,Rep. Lynn" <Kessler.Lynn@leg.wa.gov>
Rep. Kessler,
Yes I was made aware of the posting of the audit results. And I can assure you that awareness was achieved with No Involvement from the SAO. Not even their automated website notification system that I dutifully signed up for in 2006. Friends on the internet gave me a heads up and I downloaded it.
Yes, I read it with great disappointment at what passed for a performance audit. What happened to the original Statement of Work, especially the part regarding whether of not WDFW performed within the narrowly enacted legislation fundinng restriction of the CRC. As a sorry example of my disappointment, look at the amount of emphasis place on the findings/recommendation regarding low reporting rates of Sports Crabbers (CRC's). Read the recommedation that WDFW should get more aggressive with that ten dollar administrative fee (fine). Now really think about when your legislature (and WDFW for that matter) proposed and adopted that fee process. It was after the Crab Audit was supposed to be completed (2008 proposed -- 2009 adopted) by MGT America. I smell a very stinky WDFW Childers Rat here writing/participating in the actual Performance Audit. That is very unethical and probably illegal.
Another one of your constituents and friend of mine, BrushBear who retired from the Colorado F & W agency has stated that most State F & W agencies are happy with catch reporting rates around 30%. Why is this States WDFW different????? Also, another couple of folks you might contact who are active PARTICIPANTS/citizen volunteers with the shellfish advisory committee are Duane M & AuntyM. Ask them and all of the other Shellfish advisory committee members think and feel about what has transpired. In a nutshell, we are NOT happy campers.
If it were up to me, I would do a wholesale gutting of the entire Shellfish Management program in WDFW. There is absolutely zero credibility there. Phil Andersen (WDFW's new Director) should be very ashamed of that end of his agency.
One of the other folks who have been helping me has gotten the ear of Representative Kelly who is also NOT happy with the SAO and these important Performace Audits. Please meet with him and get his perspective, maybe a rare bipartisan effort could be made to correct these major WDFW problems.
JohnQ -- Freshwater Bay
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: FW: Performance Audit of Puget Sound Dungeness Crab
Recreational Fishing Program
From: "Kessler, Rep. Lynn" <Kessler.Lynn@leg.wa.gov>
Date: Thu, January 21, 2010 9:03 am
To: JohnQ
John,
I am sure you are already aware that the audit report has been released, but I wanted to make sure you received a copy. I asked that they send it to you as well. Have you received it yet?
Feel free to call with any questions that you might have. I apologize it took so much of your energy and effort to get it done.
Regards,
Lynn Kessler
From: Linda Long [mailto:longl@sao.wa.gov]
Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 2:34 PM
To: Kessler, Rep. Lynn
Subject: Performance Audit of Puget Sound Dungeness Crab Recreational Fishing Program
Representative Kessler,
Brian asked that transmit to you the performance audit report we are releasing today on the Puget Sound Dungeness Crab Fishing program.
http://www.sao.wa.gov/AuditReports/AuditReportFiles/ar1002690.pdf Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Brian or me.
Linda L. Long, CPA/CGFM/CGAP
Legislative Liaison
Longl@sao.wa.gov
360.402.3797 cell
360.902.0367 office
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