Office of Accountability & Efficiency

Mission Statement

The Office of Accountability and Efficiency (OAE) will provide leadership on accountability and efficiency, and support an accountability environment within the district. The OAE will also strive to bring public transparency to the district's financial operations.

Vision Statement

The Office of Accountability and Efficiency (OAE) will be a resource to all stakeholders and strive to enhance operational efficiencies by building a collaborative and coordinated accountability and compliance program that accommodates the distinctiveness and complexities of all district activities.

Overview

The Office of Accountability and Efficiency (OAE), under the guidance of the Senior Director, works as a collaborative team to improve district performance in order to manufacture and sustain lasting improvements. In order to enhance district performance, the office generally oversees and assists with the facilitation of numerous performances management initiatives designed to result in both significant non-instruction and instructional cost savings for the district. The major focus of these efforts is centered on non-classroom operations like facilities, maintenance, transportation, food service, and procurement.

Often the office also assists the district administration with improving instructional activities such as textbook monitoring and academic research. Furthermore, the office assists with the annual development of a system-wide five-year financial forecast that culminates with independent recommendation to further the fiscal stewardship of MPS. As a direct result of these fiscal sustainability efforts, the district is better positioned to free up resources that help improve academic achievement.

Service Areas

• Accountability and Efficiency Services manages accountability, transparency, process improvement and efficiency projects to enhance district operations and public transparency.
• Contract Compliance Services implements efforts to fulfill the District's excellence, diversity and economic responsibility as a primary employer and purchaser of goods.

• Audit Services is responsible for conducting financial and performance (operational and program evaluation) audits and for ensuring that the District fully accounts for its activities, including:

  • justification of programs which use public resources;
  • economy, efficiency, and effectiveness of resource identification, acquisition, and application; and
  • the effect of resource application

More information about the Office of Accountability and Efficiency can be found in the following District policies and procedures:

• Board Governance Policy 3.01, Board-Appointed Officials
• Board Governance Policy 3.08, Role of the Management of the Office of Accountability and Efficiency

Progress on the Corrective Action Plan under the Department of Public Instruction can be found below:

• Progress as of July 5, 2024
• DPI Approved Corrective Action Plan (dated June 13, 2024)