Workgroup on Pandemic Spending
The Comptroller’s Workgroup on Pandemic Spending, an agency-led panel that will conduct a comprehensive review of state and federal COVID-related spending has been formed. Resulting from language inserted into the Fiscal Year 2022 budget by the Maryland General Assembly following Comptroller Franchot’s request for an independent review of pandemic-related spending, the workgroup will deliver a full inspection of how pandemic funds have been expended; determine if the funds went to intended recipients and populations most in need; examine disparities in distribution; and identify possible predatory fraud and pandemic profiteering.
The workgroup, chaired by the Comptroller, is composed of key agency leadership – the Deputy Comptroller, the directors of the Comptroller’s General Accounting and Compliance divisions, and the directors of the Bureau of Revenue Estimates and the Office of Risk Management.
Agendas
- June 7, 2022 Workgroup
- March 29, 2022 Workgroup
- February 22, 2022 Workgroup
- December 8, 2021 Workgroup
- November 9, 2021 Workgroup
- July 29, 2021 Workgroup
- June 23, 2021 Workgroup
- May 20, 2021 Workgroup
Presentations
- Southern Management Companies, Hotel Division Pandemic Spending Presentation - 06/07/2022
- Grow and Fortify Pandemic Spending Presentation - 06/07/2022
- Baltimore Teachers Union Pandemic Spending Presentation - 03/29/2022
- Maryland State Education Association Pandemic Spending Presentation - 03/29/2022
- Maryland State Department of Education Pandemic Spending Presentation - 03/29/2022
- Montgomery County Public Schools Pandemic Spending Presentation - 03/29/2022
- Howard County Public Schools Pandemic Spending Presentation - 03/29/2022
- Maryland Tourism Coalition Pandemic Spending Presentation - 02/22/2022
- Maryland Entertainment State Association Pandemic Spending Presentation - 02/22/2022
- Maryland State Arts Council Pandemic Spending Presentation - 02/22/2022
- Caring for Maryland's Most Important Natural Resource Pandemic Spending Presentation - 12/08/2021
- Maryland Department of Human Services Pandemic Spending Presentation - 12/08/2021
- Maryland Department of Agriculture Pandemic Spending Presentation - 12/08/2021
- Maryland Nonprofits Pandemic Spending Presentation - 11/09/2021
- Hispanic Business Center MD SBDC Pandemic Spending Presentation - 11/09/2021
- Unite Here Local 7 Pandemic Spending Presentation - 11/09/2021
- Department of Labor Pandemic Spending Presentation - 07/29/2021
- Department of Commerce Spending Summary - 06/23/2021
- Department of Housing and Community Development Spending Summary - 06/23/2021
- Department of Housing and Community Development Supporting Attachments - 05/20/2021
- Department of Budget and Management Spending Summary - 05/20/2021
- BRE: ECONOMIC IMPACT OF PANDEMIC RELIEF PROGRAMS IN MARYLAND - 05/20/2021
Press Releases and Media Advisories
- Comptroller's Workgroup on Pandemic Spending to Meet Tuesday - 06/06/2022
- Comptroller's Workgroup on Pandemic Spending Warned About Coming "Funding Cliff" for Schools - 03/29/2022
- Comptroller's Workgroup on Pandemic Spending to Meet Tuesday - 03/28/2022
- Comptroller's Workgroup on Pandemic Spending to Meet Tuesday - 02/22/2022
- Child Care Providers Detail Frustrations with Pandemic Relief Distributions - 12/08/2021
- Comptrollers Workgroup on Pandemic Spending to Meet Wednesday - 12/07/2021
- Comptrollers Workgroup on Pandemic Spending to Meet Tuesday - 11/05/2021
- Comptroller's Workgroup Probes Unemployment Insurance Delays, Customer Service Woes, Fraudulent Filings - 07/29/2021
- Comptroller's Workgroup on Pandemic Spending to Meet Thursday - 07/27/2021
- Comptroller's Workgroup Hears Pandemic Spending Overview From Commerce, Housing Departments - 06/23/2021
- Comptroller's Work Group on Pandemic Spending to Meet Wednesday - 06/23/2021
- Comptrollers Workgroup Hears Pandemic Relief Spending Exceeds $62 Billion in Maryland - 05/20/2021
- Comptroller's Work Group on Pandemic Spending to Hold First Meeting Thursday - 05/18/2021
- Comptroller Franchot Launches Workgroup on Pandemic Spending - 04/21/2021