Micheal Perry...come on down

The prosecution has called Michael Perry as their next witness. Perry's job title is a mouth-full. He is the Assistant Commissioner of the State Department of General Services.

Scholl is asking Perry about surplus equipment and what they do with it.

"Someone has to determine what is useful and what is not?" asks Scholl.

As Assistant Commissioner, looking at old junkie equipment isn't Perry's job. He assumes this would be a clerical position. The State Department uses Unicore as their recycler and Perry says they put their equipment on the dock for them to come pick it up.

Perry says he never really went out to see the stuff in the warehouse, instead there was discussions and meetings with the warehouse personel.

We're now back to the fiscal note. Perry says they never changed the fiscal note on the E-Cycle bill. Instead when the bill was amended, the note was "deferred to the amendment". Perry terms this as "dismissive legislation".

Issues with the fiscal notes aren't frequent, but Perry says they probably have one during each term.

"We would attempt to workout a solution," says Perry.

"Did this bill benefit your department in it's original form?"

"No," says Perry.

"Did the amendment allow you to keep operating exactly as you are?"

"Yes," says Perry.