BOARD GIVES MULLINAX NEW TITLE.Byline: Greg Gittrich Staff Writer The Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. board has bestowed upon Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Unified's top investigator the title of inspector general. Don Mullinax, who conducted two critical audits of the failed $175 million Belmont Learning Center This Belmont Learning Center contains information about a building currently under construction. It may contain information of a speculative nature, and the content may change dramatically as construction progresses and new information becomes available. , did not receive any additional authority with his new title, which was made at Tuesday's board meeting. Rather, the title change was a sign of respect for Mullinax's work during the last year and a symbolic move to give him a more fitting title for his watchdog role within the nation's second largest school district, board members said. Mullinax's former title had been the director of internal audit and special investigations unit because the previous board was wary of using the inspector general title. Since he was hired in January 1999, his powers and the funding for his office have greatly expanded. Late last year, the state Legislature voted to give him temporary subpoena subpoena (səpē`nə) [Lat.,=under penalty], in law, an order to a witness to appear before a court. A subpoena ad testificandum [Lat. power. Along with the new title, Mullinax's unit will now be known as the Office of the Inspector General Office of the Inspector General (or OIG) is a common sub-agency within cabinet-level agencies of the United States federal government and serves as auditing and investigative arm of the agency's programs focused on identifying waste, fraud and abuse. . The inspector is investigating charges of abuse within the district's massive school construction and repair program financed by the $2.4 billion Proposition BB bond measure. His review is expected to be complete by early March. |
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