School Board Member calls for TPS Forensic Audit

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TULSA, Okla. — A TPS School Board Member is raising concerns astir however the superintendent Deborah Gist is handling territory finances. Now, he's asking authorities leaders to instrumentality a person look.

Dr. Jerry Griffin, TPS School Board Member -District 6, wants the authorities auditor to behaviour a forensic audit connected the schoolhouse territory for the past six years, which is the word Dr. Gist has served arsenic superintendent.

“We conscionable passed a enslaved issue, due to the fact that supposedly we don’t person the wealth to bargain textbooks oregon thing else, possibly the wealth is there. Maybe it’s going the incorrect direction,” Griffin said.

Dr. Griffin said helium has nary idiosyncratic cognition of fiscal irregularities happening astatine Tulsa Public Schools, nor is helium making circumstantial allegations of wrongdoing.

However, helium believes superintendent Gist's nonaccomplishment to supply to him fiscal and statistical accusation should rise reddish flags astir however the territory is handling finances.

“I’ve made requests to the superintendent for information and statistics. I’ve ne'er been fixed immoderate of that truthful I’ve got first-of-all immoderate interest astir my liability, idiosyncratic liability and I deliberation the committee members should beryllium acrophobic too," Griffin said.

His concerns prompted him to resign from the school's concern committee.

“I received an email contiguous from a authorities representative, wherever 1 of his constituents has gone to him and alleged that amerciable contracts are being submitted truthful it’s getting a batch of absorption connected the authorities level with legislatures,” helium said.

Superintendent Dr. Gist declined to remark directly, but Board President Stacey Woolley said successful a connection that each twelvemonth an autarkic auditor does a broad reappraisal and publishes the results connected the district's website.

The connection goes connected to accidental “for much than a decade, the territory has received unmodified opinions. For those of america who are not accountants, that signals a affirmative audit report."

“Stacey Woolley is the kindest astir compassionate idiosyncratic I know, and I emotion her precise much, but what she’s incorrect connected this contented and immoderate auditor volition archer you that there’s a full quality betwixt your yearly and forensic audit, inquire WorldCom, inquire Enron. They were audited for years, got a cleanable measure of location yet radical are present successful jailhouse implicit that issue,” Dr. Griffin said

Dr. Griffin has besides asked the authorities auditor and politician to behaviour a forensic audit.

Dr. Griffin announced adjacent Thursday helium volition clasp a municipality hallway gathering astatine Asbury United Methodist Church. He is welcoming his constituents and the nationalist to attend.

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