1. The board shall keep an accurate account of all the activities, operations, receipts, and expenditures of the plan, the trust, and the board. Each year, a full audit of the books and accounts of the board pertaining to those activities, operations, receipts and expenditures, personnel, services, or facilities shall be conducted by a certified public accountant and shall include, but not be limited to, direct and indirect costs attributable to the use of outside consultants, independent contractors, and any other persons who are not state employees for the administration of the plan. For the purposes of the audit, the auditors shall have access to the properties and records of the plan and board and may prescribe methods of accounting and the rendering of periodic reports in relation to projects undertaken by the plan.

2. By August first of each year, the board shall submit to the governor, the state treasurer, the president pro tempore of the senate, and the speaker of the house of representatives a public report on the operation of the plan and trust and activities of the board, including an audited financial report, prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, detailing the activities, operations, receipts, and expenditures of the plan and board during the preceding calendar year. The report shall also include a summary of the benefits provided by the plan, the number of participants, average account balance, the number of participating employers, the contribution formulas and amounts of contributions made by participants and by each participating employer, the withdrawals, the account balances, total assets under management, investments, investment returns, fees and expenses associated with the investments and with the administration of the plan, projected activities of the plan for the current calendar year, and any other information regarding the plan and its operations that the board may determine to provide.