Today at the Capitol -- UPDATE

The State Agencies subcommittee of the Legislative Joint Auditing committee will convene today at 1:30 to further discuss the audit of the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System. Today's meeting comes amid news that system director Paul Doane offered to resign his position after the last legislative meeting over the audit report for a "lack of familiarity with state regs." He made the offer in an e-mail to my former classmate Christa Clark, who's now the system's chief legal counsel.

The audit Doane was reimbursed for travel out of state on 115 of 246 workdays over 13 months and received reimbursement for 18 trips to Boston (his home) and three to New Mexico. Doane will appear at today's committee. Today's Democrat-Gazette also reports that Doane’s administrative assistant had expressed frustration over his compliance with system travel rules.

Also at the Capitol today: The Department of Arkansas Heritage will present budget requests.

Update: Doane resigns.