Topic: Alabama PACT Board Meeting Minutes Available Online

Naturally, they aren't (as of 5/22) linked to anywhere on the Treasury or PACT Web sites.  But if you dig through Google with just the right keywords, you can find them.

2009:  http://www.treasury.state.al.us/PACT/Do … 202009.pdf

2008: http://www.treasury.state.al.us/PACT/Do … 202008.pdf

2007: http://www.treasury.state.al.us/PACT/Do … 202007.pdf

2006: http://www.treasury.state.al.us/PACT/Do … 202006.pdf

2005: http://www.treasury.state.al.us/PACT/Do … 202005.pdf

2004: http://www.treasury.state.al.us/PACT/Do … 202004.pdf

I can't get the 2009 link to work, but the 2006 minutes are very revealing since they're a transcript of the meeting - not just a list of motions.

I also blogged about some of what I found at Left In Alabama:

Actuary Warned Alabama PACT Board in 2005 That Program "Not Viable" - He Didn't Get the Job:
http://leftinalabama.com/diary/3982/act … et-the-job

Re: Alabama PACT Board Meeting Minutes Available Online

An excerpt from Kay Ivey's Board Meetings minutes on May 20, 2009

•    Program account statistics were provided as of April 30, 2009:
o    Active accounts:  48,856
o    Students eligible to use benefits:  20,155
o    Total tuition and fee benefits paid since inception:  $426,757,359
o    Tuition and fee benefits paid in fiscal year 2008:  $58,582,000
o    Number of accounts cancelled in March and April:  1,170
o    Amount refunded in March and April:  $14,653,064


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I honestly wonder, sadly, where that money will now be invested for their children's education?

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