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PEER seeks to achieve its mission through performance evaluations and expenditure reviews of state government programs and issues, background investigations of gubernatorial and other appointments requiring Senate confirmation, fiscal notes estimating changes to revenues and expenditures that would result from passage of a bill or concurrent resolu... tion, resource- and content-limited research assistance to individual legislators upon request, audits of Department of Corrections' compliance with purchasing regulations and inventory controls by the corrections auditor, support of the Legislature's efforts to revitalize performance budgeting, and internal oversight of its own programs to ensure that they are delivered efficiently and effectively to the Legislature and the public. Through its oversight function, PEER provides the Mississippi Legislature, as a whole, with objective, timely, and responsive analysis of issues of concern relating to government functioning. PEER takes exception to things that have gone wrong, explains why they went wrong, and suggests ways to correct the problem. PEER also provides evaluative reports that examine the value of government programs. In the conduct of its work, PEER places utmost value on the accuracy, objectivity, timeliness, thoroughness and relevance of its work products and on the honesty, integrity, efficiency, and professionalism of its staff in executing the Committee's work. PEER seeks to utilize the most rigorous research tools available in conducting its analyses, while communicating the results of its analyses clearly and concisely in language and graphics easily understood by the layperson. StatuteRead More