From Lisa Demer in Anchorage -

So here's the latest on yesterday's settlement between the governor and the state Personnel Board over the Palin kids’ travel.

One of the new twists: The governor will reimburse the state for 10 trips, not nine as listed in the settlement and as reported on Tuesday.

Both Tim Petumenos, hired by the Personnel Board to investigate the case as an independent counsel, and Thomas Van Flein, Palin's attorney, said today that Palin intended to repay all the children's travel related to the Iron Dog snowmachine race.

So that brings into the mix a trip in February 2007 when Palin's three daughters, Willow, Bristol and Piper, accompanied her to the start of the Iron Dog race. Their dad, Todd, was one of the contenders and went on to win that year's race. Petumenos, who was dealing with 142 pages of travel authorizations, said that that trip was mistakenly left off the list released yesterday.

The list included with the settlement did include the 2008 Iron Dog start, but only mentioned Piper's travel. Willow was on the trip as well, and Palin will repay the state for both girls, the lawyers said. Palin also won't collect any state payments for her children to attend this year's race start.

Some readers have been wondering why Petumenos said the regulations are confusing when there's a state travel policy manual that specifically says family travel of state employees is not reimbursable.

Here's the deal: A state law specifically exempts the governor and lieutenant governor from state personnel laws for things like hours, leave and travel.

"The governor is taken out of the entire personnel act, upon which all those handbooks and all those prescriptions are based," Petumenos said.

Here are several documents and links that help with context:

> All the children's travel reports, most of which were determined to be appropriate.

> The settlement itself.

> A letter from Petumenos to Acting Attorney General Rick Svobodny, saying state ethics rules provide "insufficient guidance to an independent counsel, or a governor’s office, as to what state reimbursed travel is appropriate for members of the first family."

> Yesterday's written statement from the governor’s office on the settlement. "I am gratified that this settlement explicitly recognizes and establishes (under Point No. 5) that I broke no laws or ethics rules. The Personnel Board is acknowledging the lack of clarity in the formal guidance regarding travel, further indicating that there is no fault to be ascribed to me...."

> Statement from Palin’s lawyers.

> You can download read the state’s manual on travel rules here. (Including, on page 24, a list of expenses that aren’t reimbursable. Among them: "Expenses for children, spouses, and companions while in travel status.") But remember that the governor and lieutenant governor aren't covered by that policy because of this statute.

> The state’s Web site listing, year-by-year, the pay and travel expenses for state officials, by department, going back to 2001. Last year’s report is here.