Alabama Insurance

RANT: Trenitalia State Technical College in Stockholm was once the child, for the poster audits poor condition, but in recent years, two years at Montgomery College, has a long way to go for cleaning their act. Still, a review by the auditors released Friday of Public Accounts is a very serious negative finding that the taxpayers bear.

The review of the city is not appropriate for the college, the separation of functions recording in writing, Ledger-messages and journal entries. The review notes that the Dean of Finance and debts for goods and services from both the trip had access to examine the chairman of stamped and signed blank checks. It is important to note that during the review of the cited lack of monitoring, controls, it has no funds missing or false.

The Chairman of the separation Holm, Sam Munnerlyn, pointed out in the March 10th response to the review, that employees were hired, and the tasks can be separated in order to ensure proper oversight. That’s good, but here’s a new concept: At the same time, we hope that the Chairman-in fact, most of the signing checks to be made for someone else, his signature stamp.

RAVE: For the nine Montgomery Zoo river otter exhibit available to the public Friday. Otter River in Alabama are indigenous, but also in the wild, they are secretly animals. The new exhibition, which allows them to see both on land and in water and even under water in a glass. Otter verspielte are active and animals, so that the exhibition could easily one of the favorites of the public in the zoo.

RANT: For the Alabama Board of Physical Therapy, a large number of young regulatory authorities, by national law. The Bureau has received two negative results to an audit conducted by the State Inspector of Public Accounts published Friday.

The board was cited for the use of public funds for the purchase of coffee, snacks and other things for his personal use, which is not foreseen in the law allows the state.

While purchases of this type, and rightly so, exerts considerable pressure on the tax consequences of the public, a serious search for city, the Board was not in favour of maintaining a data rate to In support of the claim necessary in the context of reports of the state budget. SMART-Budgeting process is important for the protection of the authorities, but it is useless if the agencies do not provide information reasonable based on verifiable results.

RAVE: For a new “tradition” at the Marriott Grand Hotel in Point Clear near Fairhope. The Grand Hotel of the year was a copy of the southern noble and hospitality, tea every day with a time of 4 hours, if customers come together for tea and scones in the context of Platform for Mobile Bay.

The hotel, which is now in possession of the Retirement Systems of Alabama, has a daily basis to accommodate the American military.

Visitors are invited to come to the right of tea time and in collaboration with colleagues in March dressed in Civil War era of the US Navy clothing, with a drummer marking time for a gun next to the bay. There they will hear a short thank you to military personnel and a brief history of the battle of the civil war of Mobile Bay, with Admiral Farragut the famous line “Damn the torpedoes, full of strength.” Secondly, the head Fire barrelled for customers and tea.

The ceremony is a nice touch, especially taking into account the historical ties between the Grand Hotel and the army. It has been used by the American army for training during World War II, and as Konföderierten hospital during the civil war.

RANT: For insurance rates of apartment complexes in Alabama, even for the 69.1 percent between 2001 and 2005. It was the second increase in each state, and it came despite Alabamians generally less expensive than insurance dwellings in most other countries.

Figures from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, in the press showed Mobile Register Alabamians pay 67.76 cents per $ 100 of coverage in the year 2005, about 40 percent more than the national average. This was the sixth highest unemployment rate among countries, the newspaper reports.