Clerk inspector general peer review and excellence categories
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Yes, sir, thank you. Um I've um talked to the board a couple times about my Office of Inspector General and wanted to give you another update on them. Um so since I became clerk in July of 2019, really wanted to um change things in that office and bring them up to uh what we consider international auditing standards. And we've gone through a process of revamping basically our entire process in there. So how do you know if you're meeting those
international standards? You um seek a voluntary peer review. And last month I informed you that we um have s sought that peer review For the entire department and the team and their audit practices and an outside inspector general. They came in and audited our workflows, our policies, our procedures, and our audits of the Inspector General team and they found That we were in complete compliance with the let me get this right international professional
practices framework, which is also called the Red Book. Those are promulgated by the Institute of International Auditors. A peer review is a rigorous process and is also the gold standard. The auditors that came in, one was a deputy inspector general from City of New Orleans and in the Office of Inspector General. And the other one was Flora Miller, who is the peer review committee chairperson for the Association of Inspector Generals, and she's also employed with
the Office of Inspector General, Department of Children and Families in Tallahassee. Um I want to thank Chairman Oakley and County Attorney Jeff Steinsnyder, County Administrator Dan Biles, and Assistant County Administrator Kathy Pearson all who participated in the peer review through interviews with the external auditors and um They the external auditors concluded that we are in compliance with the IIA standards and that we are also conducting independent
audits. So I wanted to let you know that because our office works very closely with the county on your day-to-day functions and providing feedback and input to you. The other item I wanted to mention was the Florida Court Clerks and Controllers has an excellence and best practices recognition program and it's designed to encourage clerks and controllers offices throughout the state to strive for excellence in providing services to our communities and government partners. The awards recognize clerks whose offices
successfully execute the statewide best practices issued by the FCCC. And my office was presented excellence in seven categories of seven possible categories for 2021, included compliance services, confidential judicial records, guardianship audits, bail bond force. marriage license, recording fundamentals, and service of pro se documents by clerks. I want to congratulate my records team, uh civil courts, criminal courts,
finance and information technology departments. They all did an amazing job and just want to let you know we're helping Pasco reach the premier service, uh the premier county level, right, by performing that. So just wanted to let you know and congratulations. Okay.