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Oklahomans for Responsible Government are doing their best to track the millions of borrowed and printed “stimulus” dollars headed for Oklahoma.
From their newsletter:
“The state does have a website devoted to stimulus dollars and it has a section on transparency but frankly, the actual transparency is lacking. At this moment, it only shows agencies that have received money through April 30th and we know many more agencies have received money. In fact, the Department of Transportation says it only has about $80-million left of the more than $300-million received.
Even for those agencies that are shown as receiving money, there is no indication on how much, if any, of the money was spent and if so, what it was spent upon. OFRG contacted the Governor’s office to get the answers to those questions. The Governor’s office told us that Treasurer Scott Meacham is the point-man on stimulus funds, so we contacted his office. That’s when we were told that while the Treasurer’s office dealt with stimulus for the upcoming budget, it was really the State Auditor and Controller’s office that is overseeing money received for the current fiscal year. And that office told us that while there was oversight and that every agency had to eventually report the money received, if we wanted to know how the money was spent, we’d have to contact each agency separately.”
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