Gov. Tina Kotek avoids saying the agency needs more oversight.
BY JAMES NEFF
Oregon Journalism Project
The exercise can be frustrating.
Every two years, Oregon’s semi-independent state agencies—Travel Oregon and more than a dozen others—undergo financial review by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Office, which then shares a report with lawmakers.
But among those agencies, Travel Oregon, with a $95 million biennial budget, as well as the much smaller Oregon Wine Board enjoy a…