Governor's office responds, says to contact Legislative Audit Committee

Today I received a letter from the Deputy Director of the Constituent Communication Division, Office of the Governor, in response to the petition. The letter said the State Auditor’s Office (SAO) serves under the general guidance of, and is responsible to, the Legislative Audit Committee, and to share our thoughts with the members of the committee, and gave me the link. I then obtained the addresses of all the members, and will be adding them to the petition as well as forwarding them the names and comments of the 679 supporters of the petition, to catch them up. Their names and positions on the Legislative Audit Committee are: Joint Chair Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick dan.patrick@ltgov.texas.gov Joint Chair Speaker of the House of Representatives Joe Straus joe.straus@speaker.texas.gov Senator Jane Nelson Chair, Senate Finance Committee jane.nelson@senate.texas.gov Representative John Zerwas Chair, House Appropriations Committee john.zerwas@house.texas.gov Senator Robert Nichols robert.nichols@senate.texas.gov Representative Dennis Bonnen Chair, House Ways and Means Committee dennis.bonnen@house.texas.gov I encourage you to write to them on your own! As a reminder, the petition asks for an audit of the GLO/Alamo financial records including all 501c3's, and that the budget conference committee require that monies appropriated to the GLO for the Alamo not be used for anything other than required maintenance and operations until the audit is complete and the legislature has vetted the recently released Alamo plan. The audit is requested because of the public's negative reaction over the design team's solution for Alamo Plaza and the projected cost that far exceeds HB 2968.