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Audit findings expected to be ready July 14
Public meeting to be held at 7 p.m. in Administration Center
By Natalie Shelton
The much-anticipated final audit report of the Liberty school district by Westbrook & Co. is expected to be made public at a special Board of Education meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, July 14, at the Administration Center.
Interim Superintendent Mike Brewer told board members at their regular monthly meeting last week that he anticipates they will receive a draft of the audit findings of the independent firm at 4 p.m. Monday, July 7. The newly formed audit oversight committee will see the draft audit report earlier that day at 8 a.m.
The Board of Education, the committee and Westbrook & Co. representatives will then meet in closed session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, to “ask questions and seek clarification,” Brewer said. The board will then vote to make the draft an official document.
Board member Cindy Dunlap asked if personnel issues outlined in the report will be made public. Brewer said the district will have an attorney who specializes in employment law to review the findings before the board accepts the draft as a final report.
“If it all can be made public, it will be,” he said. “I don’t anticipate there’ll be something that can’t be made public.”
Eileen Houston-Stewart, assistant to the superintendent for communications, said the final audit report will be posted on the school district’s Web site after Rick Westbrook makes the report public at the July 14 meeting.
In other school board business
• Dr. Marty Jacobs, principal of Liberty High School, said the name of Liberty’s second high school will be announced at the board’s regular August meeting.
Of the 250 names suggested by community members, 89 met the board-approved naming criteria. A patron committee narrowed the list of 89 down to six: Liberty Freedom High School, Liberty Highlands High School, Liberty Hills High School, Liberty North High School, Liberty Northwest High School and Northern Hills High School.
The board will meet between now and its August meeting to vote for the name from the list of six.
• Brewer told the board that a gas line running through the property of the second high school will cost less to relocate than anticipated. The district had anticipated a $416,000 cost for Missouri Gas Energy to move the line, but Missouri Gas Energy recently informed the district that the cost will be $120,000.
“MGE has really been working with us to get the cost down,” Brewer said. “They’ve worked with us in a way that exceeds our expectations.”
Staff writer Natalie Shelton can be reached at 781-4941 or natalieshelton@npgco.com.
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Interim Superintendent Mike Brewer told board members at their regular monthly meeting last week that he anticipates they will receive a draft of the audit findings of the independent firm at 4 p.m. Monday, July 7. The newly formed audit oversight committee will see the draft audit report earlier that day at 8 a.m.
The Board of Education, the committee and Westbrook & Co. representatives will then meet in closed session at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 8, to “ask questions and seek clarification,” Brewer said. The board will then vote to make the draft an official document.
Board member Cindy Dunlap asked if personnel issues outlined in the report will be made public. Brewer said the district will have an attorney who specializes in employment law to review the findings before the board accepts the draft as a final report.
“If it all can be made public, it will be,” he said. “I don’t anticipate there’ll be something that can’t be made public.”
Eileen Houston-Stewart, assistant to the superintendent for communications, said the final audit report will be posted on the school district’s Web site after Rick Westbrook makes the report public at the July 14 meeting.
In other school board business
• Dr. Marty Jacobs, principal of Liberty High School, said the name of Liberty’s second high school will be announced at the board’s regular August meeting.
Of the 250 names suggested by community members, 89 met the board-approved naming criteria. A patron committee narrowed the list of 89 down to six: Liberty Freedom High School, Liberty Highlands High School, Liberty Hills High School, Liberty North High School, Liberty Northwest High School and Northern Hills High School.
The board will meet between now and its August meeting to vote for the name from the list of six.
• Brewer told the board that a gas line running through the property of the second high school will cost less to relocate than anticipated. The district had anticipated a $416,000 cost for Missouri Gas Energy to move the line, but Missouri Gas Energy recently informed the district that the cost will be $120,000.
“MGE has really been working with us to get the cost down,” Brewer said. “They’ve worked with us in a way that exceeds our expectations.”
Staff writer Natalie Shelton can be reached at 781-4941 or natalieshelton@npgco.com.