Castell Bryant and her leadership team today briefed Trustees on the University's responses the state Auditor General's 35 findinds.
From the onset, Board Chair Lowe said, "we said we don’t want to get into a blanking [pissing] match” with the Auditor General, especially reagarding those items that are repeats.
It seems that the University will be concuring with many of the auditor general's findings.
With regard to the University's ability to adequately make, proper, timely, salary payments, Chief Financial Officer Grace Ali said she "doesn't know how to call it, but additional procedures to address OPS, part-time employees are in place." We've revised the form to capture all the information, and we will do mandatory workshops which we have always done, she added.
The University has until Thursday, April 12 to respond to the auditors findings.
when?
ReplyDeletewhat's the skinny on grace ali?
ReplyDeleteAli has worked with Castell since the beginning of time. In the same capacity at Florida Memorial when castell was interim there. Ali was her interim comptroller and they messed things up there as well.
ReplyDeleteIs that Rufus Little in that picture yawning?
ReplyDeleteSo Grace Ali is a f*ck-up everywhere she goes, huh?, tagging behind another f*ck-up, CVB. The mfing blind leading the mfing blind. Ain't that a mfing blip?
ReplyDeleteThe audit findings on "missing" property always looked like nothing but missing paperwork -- once you realized that by far most of the "missing" property was old, old printers and computers and such that probably long ago quit working and got thrown away.
ReplyDeleteThe most interesting thing would be missing property that is still new enough to be worth something.
The second most interesting thing would be for somebody to try to figure out why FAMU is so bad at following procedures such as filing the required paperwork and keeping track of it.
There are some very simple things in life that, at FAMU, are terribly difficult to get done reliably, such as having a key made.
That's the level of management that needs to be tended to. The infrastructure has many, many loose joints in it where you can't count on the job to get done quickly and well by people with the right skills.
Here's FAMU's recipe for creating problems:
1. Give each procedure many steps.
2. Make each step unaccountable. Fill that position with someone who may or may not have the required skills. Give them too much paperwork. Make the process person-dependent (if she's sick that day, everything stops at her desk). Fill some of those links with people who "have" a job rather than "do" a job.
Then everything bogs down.
As, so often, it actually does. It is unusually frustrating to get things done at FAMU. Collecting stories of those frustrations might shed some light on what needs to be changed, if people would only speak up without fear of being attacked.
The biggest landmine he is facing is the law school.
ReplyDeleteIf the auditors are looking for mis appropriated funds look in the pockets of CVB and her staff...
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