Hi, I’m Mike Sanderson. I’m commenting on the Audit Work Plan. My full comment is at Mike Sand dot com. You may remember me from previous comments to the Board of Governors, or from my previous comment to this Board, which, fittingly for today’s agenda, led to a complaint.
In June of 2025 I commented on the annual budget, and during the meeting I noticed the budget document presented was not the same as the budget document posted earlier in the week. I mentioned it in my comment.
After the meeting I established the agenda had been edited eight minutes before the meeting start time, and that the new document would spend five million dollars more on athletics. And so I filed a complaint.
Swapping documents eight minutes before the gavel? It’s just basic good faith and fair dealing. And the risk is the embarrassment of getting caught. Your work plan talks about “Reputation and credibility with stakeholders” — the Inspector General can’t protect you from the reputational hit.
The complaint was that the President was misleading the Board of Trustees. I filed it with the BOG Inspector General, and it was forwarded to the FAU Inspector General, Mr. Iyamu. Of course the university-level Inspector General can’t handle a complaint that the President was playing games with the Board of Trustees agenda. He had no business forwarding that complaint down to the University.
It’s an environment of lawlessness across the system.
At Poly’s May meeting the livestream kept streaming during the recess. Since I was recording, that’s how I got a recording of the Chair of the Board and the Chair of the Audit Committee having a recess conversation about the complaint I filed with the Florida Bar against their University Counsel.
At New College, the single Chief Audit Executive and Chief Compliance Officer is now replying to complaints about himself. A Chief Audit Executive like that can issue the President a license to steal.
The Board of Governors Inspector General exists, by statute, quote, “to detect fraud and abuse within the State Universities.” Just in 2023 the Legislature gave the BOG Inspector General specifically the power of subpoena. We know from the 2023 investigation of the presidential search that it’s able to do an investigation if allowed.
Something has rotted to the core in the Turlington building. My parting words for this Board are, just be aware of this. No one’s minding the store. The cat’s away, the mice are at play. You can’t say you weren’t told.
