Tavares, FL (Lake County, FL) May 4, 2015
Today's May 4, 2015 Lake County School Board 2pm "special meeting" (allows
approval votes) is at the HQ building on HWY 441 and the agenda is linked
below. The agenda includes supporting attachment files for every agenda
item.
There is no "regular" evening Board meeting this week.
The special meeting Agenda for today includes:
3.01 Actionable Item - Waiver of Lake County School Board Student
Progression Plan (Susan Moxley, Superintendent) - a new Florida state law
allows the District to "waive" requirements for EOC tests, and this is the
document to approve that waiver.
3.02 District Staffing Plan (Laurie Marshall, Chief of Staff)
3.03 Review of Supervisor of Strategic Initiatives Job Description (Laurie
Marshall, Chief of Staff) - They changed the duties of the Grants
Coordinator, Liz Hobert, to perform higher level duties.
3.04 Review of Nutrition Specialist Job Description (Laurie Marshall, Chief
of Staff)
3.05 Review of the Financial Audit Report for East Ridge Band Boosters (Tom
Mock, Director of Internal Audit) ( FiscalRangers Note: This is a major
blunder over the approximately $100,000 booster fund reported by an
anonymous whistleblower - this Boosters club treasury had no real controls
or oversight - the audit report is in the online agenda. I was at the
earlier Audit Committee meeting where this was discussed.) The School
Administrators don't really exercise oversight over booster clubs and this
one bypassed the school by running their own checking account, having poor
records, etc. So the question is, when schools provide the opportunity
for a club or sport "boosters" to collect money from students and parents,
should they also take responsibility that proper accounting takes place over
the funds? This audit provides a clear example of how bad accountability
is over booster funds if no "adult" supervision is exercised over them. I
am sure there are very well managed booster funds, but this is an example of
how poor they can be also. Both the audit presentation to the Board and
the detailed audit are now attached to the agenda online. Since the
administrators seeem to avoid taking responsibility for proper booster club
controls, the Board needs to determine a method to ensure all booster clubs
have proper controls over funds they collect. Perhaps all booster clubs
need to be members of an accountability process committee and implement peer
reviews of all booster clubs? FiscalRangers will publish an analysis later
after watching the Audit presentation to the Board today.
http://www.boarddocs.com/fla/lake/Board.nsf/goto?open&id=9VZHR2488C9F <