RULE TITLE: Inspector General.

RULE NUMBER: Policy 1.092.

PURPOSE AND EFFECT: The School Board of Palm Beach County (Board) desires to incorporate a full-time program of investigation, audit, inspection, and performance review to provide increased accountability, promote fiscal responsibility, assist management in the establishment and maintenance of effective systems of control and provide increased oversight in improving District operations and to assist in improving operations, including deterring, and identifying, fraud, waste, abuse and illegal acts. To ensure the Board’s requirement that all District operations be carried out with honesty, integrity, efficiency and legal compliance, the Board desires to transform the duties and responsibilities of the Office of District Auditor to become the Office of Inspector General. The Office of Inspector General shall be independent to assure that no interference or influence external to the office adversely affects the independence and objectivity of the Inspector General and Office of Inspector General.

SUMMARY: This proposed revision converts the roles and duties of the Office of District Auditor to the Office of Inspector General and incorporates a full-time program of investigation, audit, inspection, and performance review to provide increased accountability, promote fiscal responsibility, assist management in the establishment of effective systems of control and provide increased oversight in improving District operations, including but not limited to, deterring and identifying, fraud, financial mismanagement, waste, abuse and illegal acts.

SPECIFIC AUTHORITY: Fla. Stat. §§ 1001.32(2); 1001.41 (1) & (2); 1001.42 (26).

LAWS IMPLEMENTED: Fla. Stat. §§ 119.0713(2); 1001.32 (2); 1001.41; 1001.42 (12),(13), & (15); 1001.43 (2), (6), & (10); 286.011.

SUMMARY OF STATEMENT OF ESTIMATED REGULATORY COST (optional, if one has been prepared): None prepared. Any person who wishes to provide information regarding a statement of estimated regulatory costs, or to provide a proposal for a lower cost regulatory alternative, must do so in writing within 21 days of the publication of this Notice.

CONTACT PERSON: Elizabeth McBride, 3300 Forest Hill Blvd., West Palm Beach FL 33406.

PERSON ORIGINATING THE PROPOSED RULE: Elizabeth McBride.

THE PRELIMINARY TEXT of the proposed rule may be obtained promptly without cost from the School District's web site at www.SchoolBoardPolicies.com/revisions.htm .

SUPERVISOR OR PERSON WHO APPROVED THE PROPOSED RULE: William F. Malone.

RULE DEVELOPMENT NOTICE WAS PUBLISHED: October 19, 2011, in The Palm Beach Post.

DATE PROPOSED RULE WAS APPROVED BY THE SCHOOL BOARD: November 2, 2011.

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE: Adoption of the proposed rule is anticipated to be considered at the School Board's Special Meeting on Policies on December 14, 2011, anticipated to begin at 5:00 p.m. (an approximate time, as the actual start time may vary earlier or later) in the Board Chambers at 3300 Forest Hill Boulevard; West Palm Beach, Fla. AGENDA: An agenda will be available by December 7, 2011 on the District's Web site. Pursuant to the provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodations to participate in this hearing is asked to advise the agency at least 48 hours in advance by contacting the Board clerk at 434-8139. A person may submit written comments (12 copies) about the proposed action to the clerk no later than the time of the public hearing. This hearing is open to the public.

Publish: November 16, 2011