STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA TRAVEL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 Prepared by: Comptroller General's Office State of South Carolina Office of Comptroller General 1200 Senate Street 305 Wade Hampton Office Building Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Telephone: (803) 734-2121 Fax: (803) 734-1765 RICHARD ECKSTROM, CPA E-Mail: [email protected] JAMES M. HOLLY COMPTROLLER GENERAL CHIEF OF STAFF M E M O R A N D U M TO: State Agency Heads FROM: Richard Eckstrom Comptroller General RE: Travel Report – Fiscal Year 2011-2012 DATE: October 31, 2012 The enclosed Travel Report for Fiscal Year 2011-2012 is provided for your information. The Comptroller General's Office compiled the report from data recorded in the South Carolina Enterprise Information System (SCEIS) and Statewide Accounting and Reporting System (STARS). Agencies and institutions that receive state appropriations but have the authority to issue their own checks and maintain their own accounting systems submitted their travel data separately for this report. This report is intended to be used as a management tool to assist agency heads in ensuring that the state's financial resources are being used efficiently. Please contact me if you have any questions about this report. PREFACE The Comptroller General's Office compiled this report on travel expenditures for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2012, to the extent possible, from data recorded in the South Carolina Enterprise Information System (SCEIS) and Statewide Accounting and Reporting System (STARS). Agencies and institutions (both referred to hereafter as “agencies”) that receive state appropriations but have the authority to issue their own checks and maintain their own accounting systems, such as the state's technical colleges, state-supported universities, and certain autonomously-organized component units of the state that receive state appropriated funds, submitted their travel data to us. That data also is included in this report. Employee job titles were obtained from the Budget and Control Board’s Office of Human Resources (OHR), except for legislative and judicial agencies. Each legislative and judicial agency submitted the job titles for their employees listed in this report. This report includes travel related expenditures paid from state, federal, and other sources by all agencies that received appropriations in the 2011-2012 Appropriations Act. Expenditures for travel costs incurred in the issuance of bonds, state-owned leased cars, and employee moving expenses are not included. Persons employed by one agency may incur travel expenditures that are appropriately charged to another agency. In these instances, the employee and the related travel is listed under the agency that paid for the travel. This report is divided into four sections. Section One contains a summary of in-state, out-of-state, and non-state employee travel and registration expenditures by agency. Out-of-state travel includes domestic travel outside the state as well as travel outside the borders of the United States. Non-state employee travel represents expenditures made by agencies on behalf of non-state employees for transportation, mileage, lodging, meals, and other legal charges necessary in the performance of their services while under contract with the State. This category includes registration fees and travel paid to volunteer workers. Agencies are listed in descending order beginning with the agency that has the most travel expenditures. Section Two ranks each agency by the total amount spent on in-state and out-of-state travel. This category also includes in-state and out-of-state registration fees. Section Three ranks each agency by the combined total amount spent on in-state and out-of-state travel. For each agency, the top twenty-five employee travelers are listed in descending order according to the amount expended. For agencies with more than twenty-five employee travelers, a line-item is included to show the total travel expenditures of all other employees not listed in the top twenty-five. In instances where more than one employee incurred the same amount of travel expenditures as one of the top twenty-five, each employee is listed. Therefore, it is possible that some agencies will have more than twenty-five employees listed. Expenditures for non-state employee travel are not included in this section. Accordingly, an agency's rank in Section Two may differ from its rank in Section One. Section Four contains narratives provided by each agency summarizing the type of travel incurred. Agencies are listed alphabetically. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA TRAVEL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION SECTION SECTION SECTION ONE TWO THREE FOUR SECTION ONE IN-STATE, OUT-OF-STATE, AND NON-STATE EMPLOYEE TRAVEL EXPENDITURES BY AGENCY IN DESCENDING ORDER OF TOTAL SPENDING i - iii SECTION TWO IN-STATE AND OUT-OF-STATE EMPLOYEE TRAVEL EXPENDITURES BY AGENCY IN DESCENDING ORDER OF TOTAL SPENDING iv - vi SECTION THREE TRAVEL EXPENDITURES RANKED BY AGENCY AND TOP EMPLOYEE TRAVELERS 1 - 112 SECTION FOUR TRAVEL SUMMARIES BY AGENCIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER 113 - 135 ALPHABETICAL LISTING ACCIDENT FUND iii vi 94 113 ADJUTANT GENERAL’S OFFICE i iv 38 113 ADMINISTRATIVE LAW COURT iii vi 90 113 AERONAUTICS DIVISION iii vi 81 113 AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT ii v 46 113 AIKEN TECHNICAL COLLEGE ii v 44 114 ALCOHOL AND OTHER DRUG ABUSE SERVICES DEPARTMENT iii vi 83 114 ARCHIVES AND HISTORY DEPARTMENT iii vi 95 114 AREA HEALTH EDUCATION CONSORTIUM ii vi 78 114 ARTS COMMISSION iii vi 97 115 ATTORNEY GENERAL’S OFFICE ii v 51 115 BLIND COMMISSION ii vi 77 115 BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD i v 49 115 BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD - STATE AUDITOR’S OFFICE iii vi 93 116 CENTRAL CAROLINA TECHNICAL COLLEGE ii v 50 116 CLEMSON UNIVERSITY i iv 1 116 COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY i iv 7 116 COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON i iv 5 116 COMMERCE DEPARTMENT ii v 39 117 COMPTROLLER GENERAL’S OFFICE iii vi 104 117 CONSERVATION BANK iii vi 109 117 CONSUMER AFFAIRS COMMISSION iii vi 98 117 CORRECTIONS DEPARTMENT iii vi 84 117 DEAF AND BLIND SCHOOL ii v 67 117 DENMARK TECHNICAL COLLEGE ii v 63 118 DISABILITIES AND SPECIAL NEEDS DEPARTMENT ii v 68 118 EDUCATION DEPARTMENT i iv 22 118 EDUCATION OVERSIGHT COMMITTEE iii vi 96 118 CONTINUED TC-1 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA TRAVEL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION SECTION SECTION SECTION ONE TWO THREE FOUR ALPHABETICAL LISTING CONTINUED EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION COMMISSION ii v 59 118 ELECTION COMMISSION ii vi 101 119 EMPLOYMENT AND WORKFORCE DEPARTMENT i iv 9 119 ETHICS COMMISSION iii vi 105 119 FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BOARD ii iv 37 119 FIRST STEPS TO SCHOOL READINESS ii v 71 119 FLORENCE-DARLINGTON TECHNICAL COLLEGE i iv 36 120 FORESTRY COMMISSION ii v 53 120 FRANCIS MARION UNIVERSITY i iv 24 120 GOVERNOR’S OFFICE – EXECUTIVE CONTROL OF STATE iii vi 110 120 GOVERNOR’S OFFICE – EXECUTIVE POLICY AND PROGRAMS ii v 58 121 GOVERNOR’S OFFICE – STATE LAW ENFORCEMENT DIVISION (SLED) ii v 42 121 GREENVILLE TECHNICAL COLLEGE i iv 19 121 HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL DEPARTMENT i iv 4 121 HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES DEPARTMENT i iv 26 122 HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION ii v 62 122 HIGHER EDUCATION TUITION GRANTS COMMISSION iii vi 99 122 HORRY-GEORGETOWN TECHNICAL COLLEGE i v 43 122 HOUSING, FINANCE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY ii v 54 123 HUMAN AFFAIRS COMMISSION iii vi 86 123 INDIGENT DEFENSE COMMISSION ii v 70 123 INSURANCE DEPARTMENT ii v 55 123 JOHN DE LA HOWE SCHOOL iii vi 91 123 JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT i iv 6 124 JUVENILE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT ii v 64 124 LABOR, LICENSING AND REGULATION DEPARTMENT i iv 11 124 LANDER UNIVERSITY i iv 18 124 LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING COUNCIL ii v 61 124 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT - CODIFICATION OF LAWS AND LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL iii vi 111 125 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES i iv 8 125 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT - LEGISLATIVE AUDIT COUNCIL iii vi 102 125 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT - LEGISLATIVE PRINTING AND INFO TECH SYSTEMS iii vi 106 125 LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT - THE SENATE i iv 20 125 LIBRARY ii v 72 125 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR’S OFFICE iii v 76 126 CONTINUED TC-2 STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA TRAVEL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2011-2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION SECTION SECTION SECTION ONE TWO THREE FOUR ALPHABETICAL LISTING CONTINUED LOWCOUNTRY TECHNICAL COLLEGE ii iv 35 126 MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA i iv 3 126 MENTAL HEALTH DEPARTMENT i iv 34 126 MIDLANDS TECHNICAL COLLEGE i iv 21 127 MINORITY AFFAIRS COMMISSION iii vi 107 127 MOTOR VEHICLES DEPARTMENT ii v 41 127 MUSEUM COMMISSION iii vi 100 128 NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT i iv 30 128 NORTHEASTERN TECHNICAL COLLEGE iii vi 79 128 ORANGEBURG-CALHOUN TECHNICAL COLLEGE ii v 52 128 PARKS, RECREATION AND TOURISM DEPARTMENT i iv 27 128 PATIENTS’ COMPENSATION FUND iii vi 103 128 PATRIOTS POINT DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY iii vi 80 129 PIEDMONT TECHNICAL COLLEGE i iv 28 129 PROBATION PAROLE AND PARDON DEPARTMENT ii v 56 129 PROCUREMENT REVIEW PANEL iii vi 112 129 PROSECUTION COORDINATION COMMISSION iii vi 82 130 PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENT ii v 40 130 PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION ii v 60 130 REGULATORY STAFF OFFICE ii v 57 130 RETIREMENT SYSTEMS INVESTMENT COMMISSION ii v 47 130 REVENUE AND TAXATION DEPARTMENT i iv 14 130 SEA GRANT CONSORTIUM ii v 73 131 SECOND INJURY FUND iii vi 92 131 SECRETARY OF STATE’S OFFICE iii vi 87 131 SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT i iv 33 131 SOUTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY i iv 12 132 SPARTANBURG COMMUNITY COLLEGE ii v 45 132 TECHNICAL AND COMPREHENSIVE EDUCATION BOARD i iv 29 132 THE CITADEL i iv 13 132 TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT i iv 16 132 TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE