Public will see audits

shhhh5Kansas Board of Regents president Reggie Robinson promised this week to make public the results of pending audits of five state universities. It took the intervention of Attorney General Steve Six last month to ensure that Kansans, and not just the regents, learned the troubling contents of an audit of Kansas State University. Audits of the University of Kansas and Pittsburg State University are expected to be completed this fall. The three others will come later. A subcommittee appointed by the regents also is exploring the idea of systematic audits of the universities, as Gov. Mark Parkinson has urged. State Sen. John Vratil, R-Leawood, expressed a worthy concern this week: that the audits under way not be whitewashed in anticipation of their public release. Because the universities are public institutions, the public deserves an unvarnished account of their finances and management.

4 Comments

  1. JWink
    Posted July 31, 2009 at 6:15 am | Permalink

    Also needed is an independent audit of the 1/2 billion dollars spent on the white elephant downtown Intrust ice hockey arena. Funny, the Wichita arena is costing more than other arenas in major cities around the nation.

  2. JWink
    Posted July 31, 2009 at 8:23 am | Permalink

    And what happened to the interest earned on the Downtown Arena bond money as it accumulated and sat idle in a downtown Wichita bank for a couple years?

  3. Regular
    Posted July 31, 2009 at 8:58 am | Permalink

    Public reports of state owned universities should be a no-brainer.

  4. Politico
    Posted July 31, 2009 at 10:09 am | Permalink

    Public audits should also be done on K-12 education and made available to the public.

    This will not happen becasue the 2010 commission stopped all audits because school districts said they were to time consuming to do.

    What are they hiding?