According to The Associated Press (via KTUU-TV), a legislative auditor has found that most, if not all, of the cost overruns associated with the $240-million Goose Creek Correctional Facility could have been avoided.
The audit was commissioned by the Alaska Senate Finance Committee, and it came up in a subcommittee meeting Tuesday.
Certified public accountant John P. Johns, who conducted the audit, said his investigation raised a question of accountability.
In a letter to committee co-chair Sen. Bert Stedman, Johns said that because the executive branch did not fully cooperate with his audit, he did not understand and could not report what happened during the planning, design and construction of the new medium-security facility.
Corrections Commissioner Joe Schmidt told the subcommittee he had read the audit but had little to say about it.
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